Large Texas tornadoes wreak chaos

Tornadoes have touched down near Dallas, Texas, flipping trucks, uprooting trees, wrecking homes and grounding planes.

Dallas-Fort Worth Airport cancelled flights and moved passengers away from glass windows for their safety.

The tornado touched down at lunchtime just south of Dallas, and moved east as another appeared in Mansfield. There were no immediate reports of injuries.

US TV footage showed images of houses with roofs and second storeys missing.

Some of the properties were almost completely blown away.

American Airlines cancelled more than 400 flights at Dallas-Fort Worth International, the eighth busiest airport in the world in terms of passengers.

The National Weather Service reported at least two "large and extremely dangerous" tornadoes.

Its warning said that the area would remain on tornado watch until 20:00 local time (01:00 GMT) on Tuesday.

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hope your safe and well texasgal

Saw the video for this last night when it was reported, quite shocking to see how bad it really was, the video showed the tornado physically throwing the trucks from one place to another like they where toy trucks.

Hope everyone who is affected is safe and well.

yes i saw that aswell shortie,amazing power they have eh?

my thoughts are with those who have experienced this disaster! So glad to hear that there have been very few serious injuries!

Hi ya'll. We are all fine over here. All that crazy action was in and around the Dallas/Fort Worth area. From what I hear, the tornadoes hit mostly industrial areas. Tornadoes are scary and even more so when they hit at night.

Good to hear from you Texasgal. Nice to know you are safe. xxx

Thanks mommakiwi. We're expected to hit 101F tomorrow. Crazy,huh?