As residents in southeast Texas said goodbye to 2024, many communities dealt with the devastation of winter tornadoes.
In Alvin, Shane Colston was spending time with family and enjoying Christmas festivities when tornadoes hit his home.
“As soon as I came back inside, my wife saw something in the sky like debris flying around, and she asked me to look. As soon as I looked, I heard something in the glass,” Colston said.
His story is just one of many in southeast Texas. The National Weather Service says this past week and the last few years have been considered active for tornadoes.
“So we had about four different supercells that were producing tornadoes. Each one was producing several tornadoes, so I don’t know the exact amount. We’re still calculating that. But I’d say over half a dozen,” NWS Meteorologist Jeff Evans said.
While winter tornadoes are common, the NWS says that if they keep happening at the current rate, more needs to be done to prepare people for them.
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