SPOTLIGHT ON MATADOR TORNADO AFTERMATH

Wednesday evening’s tornado left a trail of mangled traffic signs and debris across Highway 70 just south of Matador.

Dickens County volunteer Teary Blasingame cooked and served chicken and sausage Thursday in downtown Matador.

Glass display windows and doors of the Hop In convenience store on US Hwy. 70 and Texas Hey. 70 were boarded up in advance of cleanup efforts.

Caprock Canyons State Park Officer Dawson Enloe assisted Wednesday night and with cleanup on Thursday.

James McKleskey and Rusty Etheredge changed a trailer tire in Roaring Springs so they could return to Matador to help families clean up.

SPOTLIGHT ON MATADOR TORNADO AFTERMATH

Lance Logsdon of Dickens helped organize donated supplies as they arrived at the school bus barn.

After a direct hit by the storm, rubble was all that remained of the home on Highway 70 in Matador that Ken Marshall and his family shared for the past three decades.

Items from Danika and Jeremy Jameson’s home on TX Hwy. 70 north of the US Hwy. 70 intersection were left scattered outside after Wednesday’s tornado tore off the roof.

Snapped and broken tree trunks and limbs were apparent throughout the town of Matador.

Items collected from the rubble Thursday afternoon in Matador.

Kerry Winders with the Plainview and Floydada offices of Texas Farm Bureau Insurance drove through Matador delivering cheeseburgers, chips, water and soda to families and workers throughout the day Thursday.

Glouris Long and Ann Hicks helped the Marshalls load a trailer Thursday afternoon.