Texas city tornado kills 3 and injures dozens.

On Thursday, a tornado hit the city of Perryton in the Texas Panhandle, killing at least three people and injuring more than fifty.

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According to Trent Hoffeditz, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Amarillo,

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the tornado struck Perryton, a town of roughly 8,500 people, at 5:10 p.m.

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He told the radio station that the tornado "basically came across the city of Perryton from the northwest to the southeast."

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