By Selena Hill (staff@latinospost.com) | First Posted: May 16, 2013 12:34 PM EDT

At least six people were killed while entire neighborhoods were destroyed Wednesday night by a series of fast and ferocious tornadoes ripping through Northern Texas.

Hood County Sheriff Roger Deeds described the scenario as a "nightmare" at a press conference Thursday morning and reported that 100 people were injured by the twisters that struck Granbury, a town about 65 miles southwest of Dallas. Seven people are also still missing, while 250 were left homeless.

"I've been assured by my deputies on the scene that they're pretty confident with the six that they found, but there was a report that two of these people that they found were not even near their homes. So we're going to have to search the area out there," said Deeds.

MyFoxDFW.com reports that as many as 10 tornadoes may have touched down as a result of the storms, one may have been a mile wide. About 50 people were taken to a Granbury hospital, where 14 were admitted for treatment of injuries, said Deeds.

Plus, utility officials say about 20,000 homes and businesses have lost electricity.

The two neighborhoods hit the hardest in Granbury were Rancho Brazos Estates and DeCordova Ranch, in the southern end of the town of about 8,000 residents.

"We heard the winds whipping and glass smashing everywhere," said Rancho Brazos Estates resident Elizabeth Tovar, 25, to Fox News. "I felt like a long time and when things died down I looked up and saw that the roof was gone."

Another resident of that neighborhood, Allacia Jenny, told Fox that she witnessed devastation in her neighborhood. "The house across from mine looked like it was destroyed," said Jenny, 22. "I saw power lines all over the place."

The same storm spawned another tornado that was reportedly one mile wide. That twister tore through the southwestern quadrant of Cleburne, a city of about 30,000 about 25 miles southeast of Granbury.

Another tornado hit the small town of Millsap, about 40 miles west of Fort Worth, destroying several houses and a barn.

Watch a news report about the tornadoes below.


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