TEXAS CITY, Texas (KTRK) The National Weather Service confirmed Thursday morning that a tornado is what caused severe damage during storms in Texas City.
NWS meteorologists surveyed the area and determined a twister hit Wednesday evening. It has been giving a preliminary rating of EF-1.
After conducting a survey this morning, NWS meteorologists have determined that the storm damage observed in Texas City yesterday evening was due to a tornado. The storm has been given a preliminary rating of EF-1. More information will be provided later today. #houwx#txwx NWS Houston (@NWSHouston) January 7, 2021
The damage forced Calvin Vincent Early Childhood and Kohfeldt Elementary to cancel classes. Students were supposed to return for their first day after the holiday break, but that has now been postponed until Friday.
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Roofs were flying : Tornado strikes Texas City, hundreds displaced from apartment
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Jamie Johnson becomes emotional as she looks at storm damage to her apartment complex Thursday, Jan. 7, 2021, in Texas City. That s a lot to see, she said.Jon Shapley/Staff photographerShow MoreShow Less
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Three men discuss the damage to their friend s convenience store Thursday, Jan. 7, 2021, in Texas City.Jon Shapley/Staff photographerShow MoreShow Less
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Amber Smith and her daughter Natalie Smallwood, 6, plan where they will stay the morning after a storm damaged their apartment Thursday, Jan. 7, 2021, in Texas City. Smith said she was at work when the storm moved through and that her daughter wasn t home. Thank God, Smith said.Jon Shapley/Staff photographerShow MoreShow Less
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Steve Cooley, a single parent, is proud of both of his children â his 13-year-old son and 16-year-old daughter. Before this year, his eldest child was in the top 6 percent of her class and active on the soccer team, he said.
But after the most recent grading period in this most unprecedented of years, she found herself failing four of six classes, he said.
âThis is all starting to weigh on kids,â Cooley said of the coronavirus pandemic. âAnd itâs getting worse â the anxiety, the depression, the sense of social isolation.â
The number of students struggling academically and failing classes this year â even falling from honor rolls â has increased astronomically over previous school years, with parents and experts blaming online schooling, pandemic-related anxiety and a lack of family involvement and supervision to ensure children are completing assignments.