{"id":272674,"date":"2026-04-30T08:31:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T08:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/272674\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T08:31:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T08:31:22","slug":"2-tornadoes-including-an-ef-3-confirmed-after-tuesdays-severe-weather-in-north-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/272674\/","title":{"rendered":"2 tornadoes, including an EF-3, confirmed after Tuesday’s severe weather in North Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"

The National Weather Service on Wednesday confirmed two tornadoes, including an EF-3, touched down in North Texas. <\/p>\n

RIO VISTA, Texas \u2014 The National Weather Service confirmed on Wednesday that two tornadoes, including an EF-3, touched down in North Texas on Tuesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

After severe storms moved through North Texas on Tuesday evening, a trail of damage was left behind in several areas of the Metroplex. WFAA’s weather team determined that a tornado likely touched down in Mineral Wells, where the damage was the most severe<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n


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The National Weather Service was out on Wednesday assessing damage in the hardest-hit parts of the Metroplex. The agency determined that an EF-3 tornado hit Mineral Wells on Tuesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The weather service also confirmed that an EF-1 tornado hit east of Rio Vista in Johnson County. Wind speeds hit a peak of 90 miles per hour during the storm, officials said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Other storm tracks and damage are still being assessed.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In Mineral Wells, damage was widespread, and five people were injured, according to local officials.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Tuesday’s storms come after a\u00a0violent weekend\u00a0<\/a>of severe weather, with two confirmed tornadoes killing two people in Parker and Wise Counties\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The National Weather Service on Wednesday confirmed two tornadoes, including an EF-3, touched down in North Texas. RIO…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":272675,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-272674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272674","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=272674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}