The wind caused the blimp to break free from its tether in South Padre Island. CBP officials lost contact with the blimp shortly after it broke free, officials said, until it was found by Quinlan Texas Fire and Rescue in Hunt County, about 30 miles east of Dallas.

A placid fishing trip turned "berserk" for three New Zealand men when a dolphin weighing more than 400 kilograms (900 pounds) appeared to fall out of the sky before crash-landing in their small boat. A truck was blown onto its side and slid down the highway as storms brought powerful winds to the Midwest.

Six people have been killed in two states in a powerful March storm, officials said, as the severe weather system that brought blizzards to the Great Plains and high winds to the South continued to move across the United States.