Van Zandt County Storm
Posted/updated on: April 28, 2011 at 3:47 pm
BEN WHEELER (AP) — The National Weather Service says a moderate tornado damaged more than 100 structures in an East Texas storm that left one woman injured. The agency said Wednesday a tornado with winds in the range of 90-100 mph hit a rural area in Van Zandt County on Tuesday. The weather service said three structures were destroyed. That included the mobile home of a woman who was hospitalized after the storm rolled her home and turned it into a pile of debris. Van Zandt County emergency management spokesman Chuck Allen says the tornado left a 1-mile-wide, 8-mile-long path of destruction between the towns of Ben Wheeler and Edom.
