Wind, hailstorms batter Texas

? Storms battered eastern Texas with winds up to 100 mph and hail the size of baseballs, damaging buildings and slamming parked airplanes into one another at an airport.

Nancy Lacy, left, hugs Shelby White in front of White's home, Saturday after a storm hit the area. Storms with powerful winds battered Texas late Friday and early Saturday.

“When you have winds from 80 to 100 mph it can do damage similar to that of a tornado,” said Jesse Moore, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service. “That can do some very, very big damage.”

No major injuries were reported in the storms late Friday and early Saturday, authorities said.

Hangars were damaged at the Gainesville Municipal Airport, and the high winds shoved airplanes parked outside, said Airport Director Matt Quick.

About 15 planes were damaged at the airport, where about 70 aircraft are based, Quick said.