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Rio Vista man grabbed his dogs, held on for life during tornado

Albert Watts was in a mobile home in the Futrell Court neighborhood of Rio Vista, a potential target for a tornado that was moving slowly across southern Johnson County on Sunday night.
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RIO VISTA -- Albert Watts took cover under his bed, clutching his four Chihuahuas and praying for their lives to be spared.

Watts was in a mobile home in the Futrell Court neighborhood of Rio Vista, a potential target for a tornado that was moving slowly across southern Johnson County on Sunday night.

"I did a lot of talking to the man upstairs while I was under that bed," said Watts, who had strapped himself to the base of the bed with a belt. "This mobile home was rocking and shaking. I thought it was going to go at any moment."

The storm tossed debris all over his neighborhood during Sunday's supercell outbreak that began about 3:30 p.m. in Comanche County and marched eastward, through Erath, Hood and Somervell counties before moving into the Rio Vista area.

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