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Tornado Devastates Mineral Wells, Texas, Amid Multi-Day Storm Outbreak
The strike extends a week-long severe-weather outbreak across the central United States, underscoring the cumulative human and infrastructure toll of prolonged spring tornado seasons.
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people hospitalized after Mineral Wells tornado
The facts · bedrock
A tornado struck Mineral Wells, Texas, on the night of 28 April, damaging large parts of the town. Five people were hospitalized with injuries sustained in the storm. No deaths have been reported. The tornado came on the sixth day of a severe storm outbreak affecting the Midwest and Southern United States.
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Severe-weather damage frame
"A late-April tornado tore through Mineral Wells, leveling parts of the small Texas town and sending five people to the hospital, the latest blow in a punishing multi-day storm system sweeping the country's middle."
Prolonged outbreak frame
"This isn't an isolated twister but day six of a sustained severe-weather siege across the Midwest and South, with Mineral Wells the newest community absorbing the cumulative toll of a storm pattern that won't let up."