Baseball-sized hail stones wreaked havoc in North Texas late on Wednesday and damage could top $400 million and the storms likely caused hundreds of millions of dollars in insured losses, and may even top the $400 million in losses from a series of tornadoes two months ago, the Insurance Council of Texas said on Thursday.
Though no injuries were reported, the hail storms were the worst in the North Texas and Dallas area since April 2003, the National Weather Service said on Thursday, Reuters reported.
Two intense storms swept through the Dallas area late on Wednesday afternoon and lasted more than three hours before tapering off, Reuters quoted Jason Dunn, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service, as saying.
“This was definitely a multimillion-dollar hail storm,” Dunn said. “A lot of car windshields were blown out and roofs damaged in Dallas.”
More than 40 flights were diverted and 10 delayed at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport on Wednesday evening. Airport officials said service was back to normal on Thursday.
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