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National Weather Service to survey North Texas storm damage

The National Weather Service of Fort Worth has confirmed EF-1 tornado damage in the southwestern portion of North Texas.

The National Weather Service of Fort Worth has confirmed EF-1 tornado damage in the southwestern portion of North Texas.

EF-1 damage occurred in Hill County Lake Whitney and in Bosque County. Most of the damage in Hill County was classified as EF-0, the NWS noted on Twitter.

The National Weather Service has not yet rated damage from strong winds that blew through Dallas, Tarrant and Collin counties.

News 8 spotted damage in Northwest Frisco.

Powerful winds only lasted a few seconds, but left behind a big mess in Frisco. At least 30 homes sustained some type of damage, said the city of Frisco, but thankfully, no one was hurt.

The National Weather Service was sending out crews Monday to determine if tornadoes actually touched down.

You don’t have to drive very far to see the damage in the Country Club Ridge at the Trails neighborhood, near El Dorado Parkway in Northwest Frisco.

A fence is toppled near one of the entrances to the community.

A storm knocked down multiple fences, toppled trees, and tore shingles from roofs. Ken Ferguson is a Dallas Firefighter who lives in Frisco.

He’s used to responding to damaged homes, but Sunday night, his wife told him that he would come home to one.

“She said I needed to come home, ‘The windows are breaking, we’re in the closet under the stairs,’” remembered Ferguson.

Storm damage at a home in Frisco, Texas from strong winds on Jan. 15.

Pickets from a neighbor’s fence were lodged in the roof of Ferguson’s game room. The windows had shattered. He said his kids were playing inside that room when the storm blew through.

He’s just thankful they’re okay.

The trampoline in his backyard flew through the air, cleared his fence, and ended up in his neighbor’s front yard.

His favorite shade tree snapped, and the Frisco Fire Department cut it down. The city hauled it off.

He said it’s the third time Frisco firefighters responded to his home while he was working in Dallas. His home once flooded, and, in a separate incident, a repair vehicle caught fire outside his home.

Frisco firefighters are surveying the damage and will report to the National Weather Service, which could send crews to look at the damage on Tuesday.

Some neighbors believe a weak tornado touched down.

“It sounded like a train coming through, it was a huge loud noise,” said Megan Shirk, whose fence was knocked down, just feet from where she slept.

“If it weren’t a tornado, it sounded like a tornado,” said Leon Morrison, who was helping to clean up debris around his home.

Morrison said, if you want to know why the storm happened, just ask his wife.

“She said, ‘God does not like it when the Cowboys lose,’” said Morrison. The Cowboys lost a playoff game at home to the Packers, hours before the storm blew through.

Some areas of North Texas, including a Lewisville apartment complex, saw flash flooding as Sunday's storm dumped rain on the area.

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