The roof of the La Azteca grocery store on W. Eldorado Parkway peeled off and landed on a half dozen vehicles parked outside as a line of powerful thunderstorms rolled through Little Elm, Texas, on Thursday, March 2, 2023. A storm system marched eastward Friday, threatening heavy snow in the Midwest and Northeast after spawning likely tornadoes in Texas and Louisiana that damaged homes, a university campus and left thousands without power.
No deaths or injuries have been reported from the storms that struck Texas and Louisiana on Thursday night afterThe National Weather Service in Fort Worth planned Friday to survey damage near Pickton, about 80 miles east of Dallas, where it said a confirmed tornado struck. “The whole building started shaking. ... The whole ceiling is gone,” Roberts said. “It got really crazy.”
Nearly 100,000 Texas customers lacked electricity and more than 11,000 in Louisiana on Friday morning, according to PowerOutage.us.