A powerful storm system has taken aim at the Gulf Coast of the United States on Tuesday, spawning a tornado that caused damage east of Houston, Texas, the country’s fourth most populous city.
The National Weather Service had issued a tornado emergency for that area, warning that a “large, extremely dangerous and potentially deadly tornado” was on the ground Tuesday afternoon and was headed towards Baytown, Texas, about 40km (25 miles) east of Houston. However, the warning expired as the storm system moved to the east.
