Houston tornado rips through Pasadena and Deer Park, flipping trucks and ripping open a nursing home
Flares burn at refineries east of the Sam Houston Parkway where a tornado was reported to pass along Mickey Gilley Boulevard near Fairmont Parkway, Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2023, in Pasadena.It didn’t matter that the wind had ripped out the fence at his Deer Park house. It didn’t matter that he had to run nearly a mile from his home, past downed power lines and ravaged office buildings and chunks of concrete that had landed barely 50 feet from the parking lot of the Cream of the Crop Learning Center.
A resident walks past an apartment unit where the bricks fell off at Deer Park Apartments on Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2023 in Deer Park.from the tornado, but that there had been no reports of fatalities from the storm. "I've worked here for 25 years, and this is probably the worst damage that I've seen," said Pasadena Police Chief Jeff Bruegger."It's just catastrophic."
A tornado watch was first issued at 10:50 a.m., when parameters were conducive for tornadoes south of I-10 and close to the coast. The line of storms that eventually caused the tornadoes formed southwest of the 610 Loop.
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