By Scott Harvey
Paris – The first major storm of the season to hit the Northeast Texas region took little time to develop into a tornado.
At around 3:53 p.m. Wednesday, the National Weather Service Office in Fort Worth issued a tornado warning for eastern Fannin and central Lamar counties as a developing tornado was spotted near Honey Grove.
Lamar County Sheriff B.J. McCoy says a brief tornado near Brookston, about ten miles west of Paris, lifted a barn about 20 feet before smashing it and tossed a firefighter into a ditch without injuring him.
This Fannin County resident describes the scene just off Highway 82 near Honey Grove.
"We could see up in the sky just how the... I've never seen anything like it, just the wind shear and the circulation. There was golf ball size hail and it cracked our windshield, and we have a couple of dents in our car."
A storm spotter told the National Weather Service that a twister flipped trailers and damaged roofs just north of Clarksville. Though there were no reports of any injuries, according to a Red River County sheriff's dispatcher.