The Cowboys took center stage on "Sunday Night Football" against the NFC East rival Eagles and nothing could deter the game in Dallas — not even a tornado.
Dallas' local NBC affiliate, KXAS-TV, waited six minutes after the tornado warning was sounded before interrupting the Cowboys' matchup to provide weather updates during the major storm.
"We made a mistake by not immediately interrupting the football game with a tornado warning," the company said Monday in a statement, in part. "Although our meteorologists were tracking thunderstorms across the area when the National Weather Service issued a Tornado Warning for Dallas County, we delayed breaking into programming for six minutes.
"Our meteorologists were also streaming live weather coverage throughout the evening on our site, NBCDFW.com. We also alerted the football audience to our weather livestream throughout the game.
"When it comes to dealing with severe weather, we know that seconds matter. We should have broken into football programming sooner. We apologize and want you to know that we’re doing everything in our power to make sure this does not happen again."
The Cowboys beat the Eagles, 37-10, to take first place in the NFC East, and there were no reports of fatalities or missing people in the area as of Monday evening.
"Considering the path that the storm took, it went across a pretty densely populated part of our city, we should consider ourselves pretty fortunate that we didn’t lose any lives, no fatalities, and no serious injuries," Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson said Monday, via the Capital Weather Gang. "Property damage, we’re not concerned about that. … We’ve dealt with [that] before. Our number one priority is that people are safe."
The Cowboys (4-3) are next slated to visit the Giants in Week 9 after the bye.