As citizens of Selma turned the gas on for the grill and lit up charcoals, a severe thunderstorm swept through the city without much prior warning, resulting in some damage around the city.

Around 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, large oak trees and limbs came down at the Selma Country Club Golf Course, a tree down in the road blocked Hooper Drive and residents on Mallory Drive and Atkins Avenue had trees down in their yard.

“Be careful what you ask for because you just might get it,” Tommy Burns, superintendent for the golf course, said. “I asked for rain and I definitely got it.”

Burns said he had about five trees go down on the course as well as 50 trees that lost large limbs and were damaged.

“I looks like a tornado went through,” Burns said. “But I think we just had some straight-line winds come through. I imagine they were at least 60 mph for them to do this much damage.”

There was also some damage to the clubhouse including damage to the shingles and siding. He said one piece of siding blew 250 feet away, leading him to believe the winds were severe.

The course was closed on Thursday but Burns hopes to have it cleaned up and open by Friday morning.

Next to the club on Hooper Drive and Mallory Drive trees blocked the road while attracting spectators. Just one day earlier, Mallory Drive was having their annual Independence Day parade and celebration, but on July 4, the neighborhood had fallen pine and oak trees that sprinkled splinters rather than festive balloons and covered dishes like it did on July 3.

Steffie and B.J. Johnson who live on Mallory Drive said this is the second time they have had trees and limbs fall in their yard — the first time limbs damaged their truck but this time it decapitated their horse. That is of course an antique wrought iron horse from a fence post in their yard. Their home is barely viewable from the street because of the fallen tree.

“That wind just came up so quickly,” Steffie Johnson said. “And I heard the one tree go. When we looked out part of one [tree] had broken off and then a few minutes later the rest of it went. “

In addition to the residential and golf course damage, tree limbs and debris could be found throughout the streets following Wednesday’s storm.

Candi Duncan, treasurer for the Selma Dallas County Historic Preservation Society said Thursday that the historic Plattenburg House, once a stagecoach stop, was damaged by a tree limb.

“I am not sure how much of it was damaged,” Duncan said. “But we just recently paid $30,000 for a new roof so we hope it is not too bad.”

The Plattenburg House is one of the oldest known structures in Selma.