At least 16 tornadoes have been confirmed in the outbreak in North Texas on May 15, federal weather officials say.
Survey teams were sent to Johnson County, Hood County, Parker County, Ellis County and Montague County, the National Weather Service has reported.
An additional survey team will be sent to survey damage northwest of Cresson in southern Parker County on Friday, the NWS said.
There have been seven fatalities reported so far as a result of the tornadoes that swept across the area in nighttime hours.
AIR Worldwide reported that the tornadoes affected Montague and Hood counties from the Red River southward to the town of Granbury, south of Fort Worth. Most of the 120 homes in the Rancho Brazos neighborhood on the outskirts of Granbury were destroyed.
“The tornadoes were produced by supercell thunderstorms, or highly organized severe thunderstorms with strong, long-lasting, and vertically rotating updrafts,” said Dr. Tim Doggett, senior principal scientist at AIR Worldwide. “These storms formed in the central part of the state as a mid-level disturbance moving out of west Texas interacted with a plume of humid air moving out of the Gulf of Mexico.”
Granbury was among the hardest hit areas as homes were leveled and cars damaged. Trees were uprooted and power lines were downed along the paths of the tornadoes. In the town of Ennis, power was disrupted at about midnight, and several buildings in the downtown historic district were damaged.
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