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The National Weather Service warned severe weather including hail, damaging winds, heavy rain, flash floods and tornadoes was move eastward through Texas and Oklahoma on Wednesday after causing damage overnight.

The weather system damaged several houses in Rockwall, Texas, overnight but no injuries were reported. Nearly every home in the Dalton Ranch community was damaged by strong winds.

More than 212,000 people were left without power throughout Texas due to the severe weather on Wednesday. Electricity was gradually being restored to affected areas or has already been restored.

The NWS said the severe weather system will move into the Ark-La-Tex U.S. socioeconomic region, where the borders of Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas and Oklahoma meet and there is a population of more than 1 million people.

 

The NWS issued a flash flood warning in southeast Oklahoma and warned the region's residents of the storm system.

NWS said, numerous strong to severe thunderstorms will develop across Ark-La-Tex on Wednesday afternoon and Wednesday night, with the threat for damaging winds, isolated tornadoes, hail and locally heavy rainfall possible.

Large hail and damaging winds will be the primary threat by Thursday morning. Showers and thunderstorms increase in coverage again on Sunday and Sunday night with the threat for additional severe thunderstorms.

 

Texas Department of Public Safety official Sgt. John Gonzalez said, three storm chasers died in a two-vehicle collision about 5 miles west of Spur, Texas, on Tuesday.

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