08-04-2025
National Weather Service confirms EF-2 tornado hit City of Lone Star
LONE STAR, Texas (KETK)– The National Weather Service has confirmed that an EF2 tornado tore through the city of Lone Star near the Ellison Creek Reservoir on Friday.
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The Mayor of Lonestar, Brianna McClain, has issued a mandatory curfew until Friday for damaged neighborhoods.
City officials said 40-50 families are displaced because homes are toppled by trees and no power in the area.
Bowie-Cass Electric Cooperative has crews continuing to work on restoring power to the hardest hit areas. The Morris County Emergency Management team and local tree companies are still picking up the pieces, after the intense tornado left destruction all along its path.
'The trees are all broken down there. You can see where the path it took. If people had been out, somebody should have died, but no one did,' Chief Ernest Hastings with the Lone Star Police Department said.
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The Lakeview Baptist Assembly Church campgrounds near Ellison Creek Reservoir has had devastating damage to the property. The manager said nearly 250 trees were snapped and 75% of the cars in their parking lot were totaled and thrown hundreds of yards away.
'We had 50 something cars in the parking lot, probably 75% of them were damaged. We had six of them that were picked up and thrown probably 300 feet away that are totally totaled out,' campgrounds manager, Collier Szydloski said.
The campgrounds was hosting a women's retreat when the tornado passed by. 125 women took cover in the auditorium basement and after the storm rolled out, the women saw the building heavily damaged. There were no injuries reported at the church.
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People in Lone Star said great progress has been made with the help of volunteers like Texans on Mission.
'Everybody's working. Everybody's putting their head together working this. You couldn't ask for a better response,' Hastings said.
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