Texas Tornadoes: At least 6 Dead, 14 Missing and 100 Injured In North Texas Twisters

Powerful tornadoes ripped through residential areas in northern Texas on Thursday. 14 people were reported missing in the town of Granbury, Texas alone following the twisters. In he Rancho Brazos neighborhood in Hood County, just south of the Dallas-Fort Worth metro area.

Sheriff Roger Deeds of Hood County told Reuters that a "very big percentage" of homes in the Rancho Brazos area were destroyed. 90 residents had to be relocated to a local school. A spokesman for the local EMS service, MedStar Mobile Healthcare reported that at least 100 people had been injured in the Texas tornadoes.

Resident Elizabeth Tovar told the AP that "fist-sized" hail rained down upon her Granby home "We were all hugging in the bathtub and that's when I started happening. I heard glass shattering and I knew my house was going [down]. We looked up and...the whole ceiling was gone," Tovar said.

According to the National Weather Service, another twister over a mile in width ripped through Cleburne, Texas, southeast of Granbury. The town's mayor, Scott Cain, reported that no residents there were seriously injured.

As the weather warms up across the United States, tornado 'season' spreads northward with the heat. Beginning in the western Gulf region, eventually the abundance of twisters make their way into the Great Plains and soon farther northward.

The Fujita, or 'F-', scale measures tornado intensity. The most powerful storms, rated F-4 and F-5, are abundant across the nation's midsection, while the mountains of the northeastern states serve as barriers for winds that otherwise would create such forceful twisters. F-0's and F-1's are occasionally reported east of Appalachia, but are mildly rare.