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Damage after an EF-3 tornado hit Franklin, Texas on Saturday.
Severe weather that moved across the southern U.S. on Saturday left at least eight people dead, injured dozens of others and ravaged numerous homes in its path.
Two children, ages 3 and 8, were killed in eastern Texas when a tree fell on the car in which they were traveling. Angelina County Sheriff Greg Sanches
said in a statement that the children, who were in the car with their parents during the storm, were pronounced dead on the scene.
"They were at the wrong place at the wrong time," Capt. Alton Lenderman of the Angelina County Sheriff's Office told
The New York Times. "The tree fell just as they were going under it."
In central Texas, approximately a dozen people were injured in Franklin where a tornado was confirmed by the National Weather Service, according to
The Dallas Morning News.
In a preliminary damage report, the National Weather Service assigned the tornado an EF-3 rating, saying peak winds reached around 140 mph in Franklin.
Comment: Just a week ago five died following flooding in the same city.