Powell said he had no reports of injuries.
The National Weather Service has not confirmed a tornado, but damage to homes was also reported in northern Parker County, said meteorologist Matt Stalley, and investigators likely will go to the area later Friday to make that determination.
A suspected tornado touched down in north Texas early Friday. No injuries were reported.
The two areas are about 10 miles (16 kilometers) apart on the western edge of the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, and Stalley said the storm system was expected to move east of the region by early Friday afternoon.
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The weather service’s Storm Prediction Center has forecast severe weather through Friday evening primarily from the lower Mississippi Valley to the lower Ohio Valley.
The greatest risk of tornadoes includes an area from eastern Arkansas, northern Louisiana, western Mississippi and western Tennessee.
Storms with damaging winds and hail are expected along a swath from eastern Texas and southeastern Oklahoma into much of western Kentucky, Tennessee and Alabama and including much of Louisiana and Mississippi and parts of southeast Missouri and southern Illinois.