HORRIFYING photos show the devastating effects of tornadoes that tore through the South, killing at least one and injuring dozens.
Neighborhoods have been completely wiped out and homes left in pieces after several destructive twisters ransacked parts of Texas and Oklahoma.
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A cold front met dangerously warm fall weather to create a storm system that wrecked areas all over the south, meteorologists report.
At least one person has been declared dead in McCurtain County, Oklahoma, according to county emergency manager Cody McDaniel.
The National Weather Service issued major warnings throughout several states as officials urged residents to take cover from the terrifying storms.
A whopping nine tornadoes formed in Texas while four appeared in Arkansas and one in Oklahoma, according to a preliminary count by the National Weather Service.
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Officials believe that more twisters will pop up in the early hours of Saturday morning.
The AP reported that another community was hit exceptionally hard: Powderly, Texas,
Powderly is located near the border of Oklahoma, which also has faced serious damage in some areas.
Lamar County Judge Brandon Bell, the highest elected official in the county that includes Powderly, declared a disaster in the area, a step in getting federal assistance and funding.
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Bell’s announcement stated at least two dozen people were injured across the county.
Mind-blowing pictures and videos from a major highway in Sherman, Texas, and Durant, Oklahoma, show a tractor-trailer flipped over in front of a mobile home left in pieces, according to Fox Weather.
A storm chaster posted a haunting video on Twitter from Cason, Texas, saying he was the first on the scene.
He claimed to be "helping people under the debris that had serious injuries to the head where they were bleeding."
"People were screaming for help."
Another video allegedly taken in Paris, Texas, shows a family who is standing among piles of wreckage that appears to have once been homes.
As tornadoes lighten, residents in Arkansas and Louisiana should still brace for damaging winds and thunderstorms, CNN reports
"Storms will persist well into the night, tracking across much of Louisiana and Arkansas, and into western Mississippi," said the Storm Prediction Center.
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The system will quickly move from east to west, according to officials
Overall, 42million people from Texas to Wisconsin were at risk of severe storms Friday.
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