More than 20 tornadoes were reported throughout Texas Monday night causing at least one death and many injuries. As of Tuesday, March 22 at 10:20 a.m. more than 59,600 Texas residents were without power.

Reports had tornadoes slamming into a TV station tow in Round Rock just north of Austin while other populous areas including Jacksboro, Elgin, Taylor, Jarrell, Madisonville, and Crockett were also hit. More severe weather is expected.

Early Tuesday morning more than 60,000 customers were without power after the night of storms.

It is forecasted that the storm will be traveling east, extending into the Deep South with tornadoes, hail, and damaging winds. There is expected to be a level 4 out of 5 chance of severe weather, according to the National Weather Service Storm Prediction Center.

Cities expected to get the brunt of the storm include Baton Rouge, Lafayette, and Lake Charles, Louisiana as well as Hattiesburg and Jackson, Mississippi. Storms are also expected to extend into Alabama Tuesday evening. There is also a risk of severe weather over portions of the U.S. Southeast and southern Mid-Atlantic, including the Carolinas as late as Wednesday.

More severe storms may be in the offering as March turns to April. April, May, and June are the months when the greatest numbers of tornadoes occur. It is feared that this season could be more active than usual.

Severe thunderstorms, including a “string of pearls,” or band of discrete isolated rotating thunderstorms or super cells quickly fired off just west of Interstate 35 in Central Texas at about 4 p.m. local time on Monday. At least 16 people were injured in an assault of tornadoes, according to FOX Weather.

The first damaging tornado of the day struck Jacksboro, about 1000 miles northwest of Dallas. There a high school was damaged as well as several other structures.

A tornado killed one person and hospitalized at least seven more in northwest Greyson County, Texas, about 60 miles north of Dallas.

Damaging tornadoes also struck Kingston, Oklahoma, the state’s first tornado this year.

Several tornadoes were reported outside Austin.

A severe tornado crossed Interstate 35 in Round Rock, Texas, just north of Austin damaging a camera tower belonging to TV station KVUE.

The same storm spawned a tornado that almost struck the Fort Hood weather radar, about 60 miles north of Austin. The radar measured 100 mph of rotational velocity just 253 feet above the ground and then went offline.

Tornado damage was also reported in Taylor, about 15 miles east of Round Rock. Elgin, about 20 miles east of Austin, was also hit. Jarrell, about 40 miles north of Austin, which was destroyed by an F5 tornado that killed 27 people on May 27, 1997, was also hit.

All told, there were more than 100 reports of severe weather as well a dozens of tornado warnings as tornadoes marched through central and eastern Texas.

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