Severe storms battered North and Central Texas for six consecutive days from April 24 through April 29. The National Weather Service in Fort Worth confirmed 10 tornadoes across the stretch, along with 226 reports of hail up to softball size, flash flooding, and straight-line winds estimated at 110 mph. Two people were killed, and at least 11 were injured.
Three of the hardest-hit communities sat in Wise, Parker, and Palo Pinto counties, where more than 1,000 Partners of Kenneth Copeland Ministries live. Within days, the Fort Worth ministry’s Disaster Relief teams were walking those neighborhoods house by house, an effort the ministry detailed in a May 11 account of the response.
“Our priority was to ensure the safety and well-being of our Partners and Friends,” said Jonathan Copeland, Disaster Relief manager at Kenneth Copeland Ministries. “We understand the majority of people aren’t checking their voicemail, or even able to do so, during natural disasters. When we are able, we will go to them. This was in our own backyard, so there was no hesitation.”
What the Storms Left Behind
NWS surveys cataloged the damage town by town. An EF2 tornado struck Runaway Bay in Wise County on the night of April 25. It destroyed one home, damaged many others, and killed one resident. The same parent supercell produced an EF1 tornado near Springtown in Parker County that damaged dozens of homes and businesses along a nearly 10-mile path, and straight-line winds from the storm killed a second person nearby.
Three days later, on April 28, an EF3 tornado with estimated winds of 145 mph tore through the Holiday Hills subdivision and Fort Wolters areas of northeast Mineral Wells. Five people were injured. NWS Fort Worth called it the strongest tornado in Parker County since 1990, the strongest in Palo Pinto County since 1982, and the first EF3 in North or Central Texas since the Valley View tornado of May 2024.
Surveyors traced 10 tornadoes across the outbreak: a brief EF0 in Lamar County on April 24, four on April 25 from a single supercell that tracked from Jack County toward the Metroplex, and five more on April 28 from Montague County down to Johnson County. Flash flooding forced water rescues in Tarrant County, and one Sunday-morning storm dropped softball-size hail between 6 and 7:30 a.m., timing the weather service called very unusual for North Texas.
Hail did the widest damage by count. Of the 287 storm reports the office logged across the six days, 226 involved large hail up to softball size, with 37 more for wind damage and severe gusts.
Forecasters issued 111 warnings over the stretch, including 22 tornado warnings, and described the outbreak as the most damaging severe weather in the office’s coverage area since June 2025.
Checking on 1,000 Households
Kenneth Copeland Ministries’ response teams concentrated on Runaway Bay, Springtown, and Mineral Wells, where the ministry estimates an average of 340 Partners were affected in each city. Rather than waiting for calls, crews conducted welfare checks in person.
“We literally went door to door across each city to check on the welfare of our Partners,” Jonathan Copeland said. “We believe that faith protected them during the storm, but it needed to be God’s love to touch them after it.”
The ministry committed $12,000 to victims of the North Texas tornadoes, distributed during those visits. Teams paired the financial help with prayer at each stop.
A Hole in the Garage and a Prayer on the Porch
Hugh and Sandra Gibson of Springtown, married 50 years and KCM Partners for 30, were among the households the teams reached. Their property fared better than most of the others around them. Two mature trees were uprooted, and debris punched through their garage roof.
“It got heavy and we heard three loud booms on the roof,” the couple recalled. “When it was all over, we saw a hole in our garage but were thankful that we were in better shape than others. God is faithful.”
After receiving a portion of the relief funds, the Gibsons prayed with the KCM team for their neighbors and for contractors to reach everyone still waiting on repairs. “Thank you, Lord, for these folks that care,” Hugh Gibson prayed. “They showed your love and thank you for the blessings they’ve been to us.”
Ministry photos from the outreach show the couple praying with team member Riley Stephenson outside their Springtown home, one stop among hundreds the crews made across the three towns.
How Does This Fit KCM’s Wider Relief Work?
Disaster response is a standing operation at the ministry, not an improvised one. Kenneth Copeland Ministries runs its relief teams out of its Fort Worth headquarters, and the 2025 Covenant Partner Report counted 31 deployments across the United States last year, the largest of which was the response to the Central Texas flooding around Kerrville, where the ministry invested more than $200,000 in the community across five trips.
The North Texas tornadoes presented a different profile: a disaster minutes from headquarters rather than hours away. Proximity shaped the approach, and staff stood on porches in towns where the ministry could match names on its Partner rolls to addresses on damaged streets.
Partner contributions fund the relief program, part of the giving model under which KCM redirects a portion of every donation to outreach work.
Recovery Still Underway
Cleanup in Mineral Wells, Springtown and Runaway Bay continues into the summer, with contractors working through backlogs across all three towns. NWS damage assessments from the outbreak remained preliminary into May, and the agency notes its totals are subject to revision.
Kenneth Copeland Ministries says its teams will continue to respond as needs surface among affected households. For a ministry that spent 2025 answering 31 disaster calls across the country, the season’s first major response was the closest to home.
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