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Ennis is in the northeastern region of Texas, in eastern Ellis County. Interstate 45 passes through the east side of the city, with access from Exits 247 through 255. I-45 leads north 35 miles (56 km) to Dallas and south 205 miles (330 km) to Houston .
Parts of Texas and Louisiana were under a tornado watch Thursday night as a line of thunderstorms battered the south-central U.S., threatening the region with large hail, damaging winds and heavy ...
Four-star linebacker and Baylor commit Kaleb Burns has been on the Sooners' radar for a while and visited during their win over Alabama. ... WR, 5-foot-10, 170 pounds, Ennis, Texas (Ennis HS ...
At the same time, discrete tornadic supercells developed in Texas. One of the cells produced a violent EF4 wedge tornado, which ripped through parts of Garland and Rowlett, Texas, causing major damage and killing 10 people. [4] As the storm complex began to move to the north, more supercells formed, and several more tornadoes were reported.
In addition to tornadoes, large hail was reported, peaking at 4 in (10 cm) in diameter near Mineral Wells, Texas on May 15. The EF4 tornado in Hood County, Texas, accounted for all six deaths caused by the severe storms, making it the first deadly tornado event in Texas since the 2007 Piedras Negras-Eagle Pass tornadoes. [2]
In 2011, McKinney National Airport added a new 78-foot tall contract FAA air traffic control tower equipped with the latest in radar, radio and voice switch technology. In 2012, a new 7,000 foot long, 150 foot wide runway was completed that can handle large aircraft, with a maximum capacity of 450,000 pounds.
This winter is forecast to bring sudden bouts of extreme cold to Texas that could test the state's electric grid in early 2025, the grid operator's chief meteorologist said on Tuesday, reviving ...
Texas Towers were a set of three radar facilities off the eastern seaboard of the United States which were used for surveillance by the United States Air Force during the Cold War. Modeled on the offshore oil drilling platforms first employed off the Texas coast, they were in operation from 1958 to 1963.