Texas ? President Bush and first lady Laura Bush were moved to an armored vehicle on their ranch Friday when a tornado warning was issued in central Texas, the White House said.

The vehicle was driven to a tornado shelter on the ranch at 1:30 p.m. CST, and the president, Laura Bush and their two Scottish terriers, Barney and Miss Beazley, sat inside until the weather cleared, deputy White House press secretary Scott Stanzel said. They were never moved into the shelter, he said. The shelter is a few hundred yards away from the president’s house on the ranch.

“He was in the vehicle for about 10 minutes and then he went back to the house,” Stanzel said, adding that other members of the staff at the ranch were sheltered as well.

About an hour later in Groesbeck, roughly 60 miles east of Crawford, a man was killed when a tornado struck an assisted living facility for veterans, emergency management officials said.