{"id":272430,"date":"2026-04-30T04:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T04:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/272430\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T04:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T04:22:08","slug":"devastation-in-northern-texas-after-ef-3-tornado-tears-apart-buildings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/272430\/","title":{"rendered":"Devastation in Northern Texas After EF-3 Tornado Tears Apart Buildings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A storm chaser captured the trail of destruction left behind by an EF-3 tornado which touched down in Mineral Wells, Texas, on Tuesday, April 28.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Chad Casey told Storyful he recorded this footage on Wednesday, a day after the severe storm ripped through the northern Texas city. Debris and downed trees are seen scattered around pulled apart buildings as crews work to tidy up the mess.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Survey teams from the National Weather Service <a data-ylk=\"slk:determined;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NWSFortWorth\/status\/2049582151306227879\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">determined<\/a> an EF-3 tornado with winds up to 145 mph moved through the area. Credit: Chad Casey via Storyful<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A storm chaser captured the trail of destruction left behind by an EF-3 tornado which touched down in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":272431,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[58278,35487,1971,27,9192,29,28],"class_list":["post-272430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-chad-casey","tag-mineral-wells","tag-national-weather-service","tag-texas","tag-texas-city","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}