Severe weather, winds sweep across South
HOUSTON - Storms packing winds approaching 90 mph are sweeping across parts of Texas and Oklahoma, causing widespread power outages in the Dallas area - including at a professional soccer game.
FC Dallas tweeted that its game against Toronto was being delayed Saturday night because the storm had knocked out half the lights at Toyota Stadium.
CBS Dallas reports the storm also delayed the Academy of Country Music's Party for a Cause festival in Arlington. All flights at Dallas Love Field were halted until the storm passed.
Oncor spokesman Kris Spears tells the Dallas Morning News tens of thousands of power outages were reported across the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
There were reports of quarter-sized hail Saturday afternoon from central Nebraska through the plains of western Oklahoma and into Texas.
Most of the southern parts of Alabama and Georgia remained under a tornado watch as severe thunderstorms fired up across the region.
Severe thunderstorms will also be possible across Louisiana, Arkansas, southern Missouri, southern Illinois, western Kentucky, Tennessee, northwest Georgia, Alabama, western Florida and Mississippi.