DALLAS — Severe storms tore across much of North Texas Monday evening, with a tornado damaging a high school in Jack County, emergency crews launching a search-and-rescue effort in Montague County and The National Weather Service issuing several tornado watches and warnings from Fort Worth to Austin.
The weather service placed the entire Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex under a tornado watch Monday afternoon. That advisory was upgraded about 6:15 p.m. to a tornado warning for northeast Tarrant County, northwest Dallas County and parts of Collin and Denton counties. People were advised to take immediate shelter in a basement or interior room on the lowest floor of a sturdy building.
Severe thunderstorm warnings were also issued for much of the area, including Tarrant, Cooke, Parker, Johnson and Hood counties, with the main concern hail the size of a quarter and 60 mph winds.
