A resident rummages through a home to find clothes on Prairie Meadow Lane in Celina on May 26 after a tornado touched down the night before. (Samantha Douty/Community Impact)
A resident rummages through a home to find clothes on Prairie Meadow Lane in Celina on May 26 after a tornado touched down the night before. (Samantha Douty/Community Impact)
The mailbox of the home at 9148 Prairie Meadow Lane remained standing after a May 25 tornado. The family was not home at the time of the storm, neighbors said. (Samantha Douty/Community Impact)Celina resident Josita Mandh's home was damaged during the May 25 tornado. Two walls of her daughter's bedroom remained standing on May 26. (Samantha Douty/Community Impact) The walls and roof of Celina resident Josita Mandh's home were torn down from a May 25 tornado. (Samantha Douty/Community Impact)A May 25 tornado left several homes destroyed on Prairie Meadow Lane in Celina. (Samantha Douty/Community Impact)The tornado blew out the windows of Celina resident Josita Mandh's vehicles on May 25. (Samantha Douty/Community Impact)Collin County Sheriff deputies and other officials responded to the Prairie Meadow neighborhood on May 26. (Samantha Douty/Community Impact)The roof was ripped off a home on Prairie Meadow Lane in Celina. It was one of six homes that was damaged during the tornado, officials said. (Samantha Douty/Community Impact)Debris littered a yard on Prairie Meadow Lane after a tornado touched down on May 25. (Samantha Douty/Community Impact)Residents and neighbors clean up the yard of a home on Prairie Meadow Lane after a tornado hit on May 25. (Samantha Douty/Community Impact) Trees broke during a May 25 tornado in Celina. (Samantha Douty/Community Impact)
A tornado touched down in northeast Celina on May 25. The tornado left six homes severely damaged, officials said. On May 26, residents waded through debris of their homes along Prairie Meadow Lane.
Samantha is the editor for the Frisco and Prosper-Celina editions. She joined Community Impact in 2021 as the editor for the Lewisville-Flower Mound-Highland Village editions. She graduated from The University of Texas at Arlington in 2018 with a degree in journalism. Before joining Community Impact, she reported on education for the Victoria Advocate, a rural South Texas daily newspaper.
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