Texarkana, Ark., and Miller County have been declared disaster areas after being hit by Category 2 hurricane-force winds Thursday, local officials said.

“Last night at the command center, it didn’t take long for us to come to the conclusion that we had a major disaster on our hands with a lot of damage and a lot of cost that will be incurred in cleaning up the damage,” Texarkana, Ark., Mayor Horace Shipp said during a press conference Friday. “Judge Roy McNabb made a verbal declaration of this being a disaster in Miller County, and I, at the same time, made a verbal declaration th...