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    <p>Roofs were ripped off, windows smashed and trees upended as the ferocious twister terrorised Missouri City at around 1am (local time).</p><p>Around 50 homes were affected by the swirling column of air in the Sienna Plantation neighborhood, close to Houston.</p><p>The tornado struck just hours after category 4 <a href="/news/world-news/640197/hurricane-harvey-katrina-strength-texas-louisiana-new-orleans" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Hurricane Harvey slammed into Texas on the east coast of the US</a>, levelling buildings with 130pm winds and storm surges.</p><p>Describing the moment the tornado hit, one terrified resident said: &ldquo;I was watching a movie and everything was going fine. All of a sudden, we heard this real loud noise.</p><p>"You could just see, it was green outside and the house was shaking."</p></section>
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    <p>The monstrous hurricane hit the town of Rockport head-on at around 10pm (local time) last night.</p><p>Several people were injured and 300,000 were left without power as tidal surges left roads waterlogged and <a href="/news/latest-news/639998/hurricane-harvey-texas-homes-evacuated-extreme-weather-news" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">evacuated residents sought shelter</a> fearing for their lives.</p><p>Harvey, the strongest storm to hit the US in 12 years, dumped more than nine inches of rain on Texas, with more rainfall forecast in the coming days.</p><p>The National Hurricane Center said &ldquo;rainfall of this magnitude will cause catastrophic and life-threatening flooding&rdquo;.</p></section>
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<div class="p402_hide jsElement"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">MAJOR TORNADO DAMAGE in Sienna Plantation (Missouri City) roofs blown off, lots of big trees down. <a href="https://twitter.com/abc13houston">@abc13houston</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/HurricaneHarvey?src=hash">#HurricaneHarvey</a> <a href="https://t.co/Zctbg2IsIF">pic.twitter.com/Zctbg2IsIF</a></p>&mdash; Foti Kallergis (@FotiABC13) <a href="https://twitter.com/FotiABC13/status/901351802616115200">August 26, 2017</a></blockquote>
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    <p>CNN reporter Nick Valencia described the aftermath in Rockport, Texas, as &ldquo;some of the worst damage I've ever seen&rdquo;.</p><p>She said the mayor of Rockport was "encouraging residents to write their social security numbers and names on their forearms in case first responders had to recover their bodies&rdquo;.</p><p>Harvey was downgraded to category 1 overnight with winds dropping to 90mph and is expected to become a tropical storm later today.</p></section>
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