JASPER COUNTY \u2014 KFDM Meteorologist Braydon Siau says it appears a landspout\/tornado moved across FM 1004 this afternoon and damaged Genesis Baptist Church northwest of Buna.<\/p>\n
Jasper County Judge Mark Allen confirms the damage at about 4:30 p.m. Saturday to Genesis Baptist Church, seven miles down FM 1004, north of U.S. Highway 96 and northwest of Buna in the Cairo Community.<\/p>\n
There were no injuries. Part of the roof was ripped off and an outbuilding was damaged.<\/p>\n
Church members and other people in the community immediately started making repairs and cleaning up.<\/p>\n
Judge Allen says firefighters are on a scouting mission to see if there\u2019s a path or any other damage. He says so far they haven’t seen anything.<\/p>\n
Neighbors say they didn\u2019t know that had happened and there was no damage to their homes.<\/p>\n
They also flew a drone loaned from Port Arthur over the area.<\/p>\n
The National Weather Service is going to investigate Sunday and make a determination of the cause.<\/p>\n
Church services will take place tomorrow. Judge Allen calls the congregation a strong group of people. Judge Allen and Emergency Management Coordinator Billy Ted Smith were at the scene.<\/p>\n
He says he jokingly asked the pastor, \u201cdid you pray for a new roof!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JASPER COUNTY \u2014 KFDM Meteorologist Braydon Siau says it appears a landspout\/tornado moved across FM 1004 this afternoon…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":822847,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[192,79],"class_list":["post-822846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=822846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/822847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=822846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=822846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=822846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}