Updated: 7:48 PM CDT May 1, 2021
JACKSONVILLE, Texas Tragic news spread throughout East Texas Friday as it was announced that Pete Lammons, the former Jacksonville High School, University of Texas and NFL football star died during a fishing tournament. He was 77.
In 2000 Lammons and his brothers organized a yearly $5,000 scholarship in honor of their father, and to emphasize its focus on education, the football player could not receive the money until they showed proof they had graduated from a four-year university.
Our Alan Kasper caught up with his friend Wayne Coleman, the Athletic Director of Jacksonville High School, to find out more about the man.
Janice Dean has your FoxCast.
Forecasters warned of severe thunderstorms and possible tornados across parts of North and East Texas Friday as well as southwestern Oklahoma.
Affected counties included Archer, Baylor, Childress, Clay, Collingsworth, Cottle, Foard, Hardeman, King Knox, Stonewall, Wichita and Wilbarger until at least 9 p.m. CDT, according to the National Weather Service.
The most severe weather was expected to last until 8 p.m. when tornado warnings were set to expire in Buna, Kirbyville and Bessmay.
Stormchasers in Vernon, Texas, posted photos to Twitter Friday evening showing twisters weaving across the countryside and between windmills. Some showed rainbows juxtaposed against dark, cloudy skies and flashes of lightning.