A tornado has ripped through a picturesque lakeside Texas town, resulting in multiple fatalities and destroying or damaging homes, authorities said.
The tornado ripped through the Brazos River courthouse town of Granbury as part of an outbreak of severe weather that plagued the region.
Hardest hit were two neighbourhoods, Rancho Brazos Estates and DeCordova Ranch, in the southern end of the town of about 8,000 residents about 65 miles south west of Dallas, said Hood County sheriff's Lt Kathy Jiveden.
There were multiple fatalities, she said, but she had no estimate of dead or injured or the number of homes destroyed.
Officers "are going house to house" looking for residents trapped, injured or dead in the rubble of demolished homes near Lake Granbury, Lt Jiveden said.
Another tornado hit the small town of Millsap, about 40 miles west of Fort Worth. Parker County Judge Mark Kelley said roof damage was reported to several houses and a barn was destroyed, but no injuries were reported.
Hail as large as grapefruit also pelted the area around Mineral Wells on Wednesday evening. A police dispatcher reported only minor damage.
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