Violent overnight storms are being blamed for fallen trees and power lines across southern Missouri and for destroying a mobile home in Texas County, seriously injuring the man inside.
Roby fire officials say the man, Matt Hubbard, suffered serious head injuries early Thursday morning when he and parts of the structure were flung a quarter mile away. The city’s fire chief says he believes a tornado struck the home but the National Weather Service is calling it straight line winds of more than 60 miles an hour.
The weather service says it will conduct a more thorough storm damage assessment, possibly this afternoon.
The fire department originally thought four people were missing. The victim in his distressed state forgot that the rest of his family was in Colorado Springs.