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At least five people are dead after severe weather hit Texas and Oklahoma overnight, causing extensive damage and outages, authorities said.

'Golf ball sized hail' and winds of up to 60mph battered some southern states with soaring temperatures threatening to unleash a deluge of wildfires on some areas

Authorities say at least nine people are dead after severe weather swept across Texas and Oklahoma overnight, causing extensive damage and outages.

Authorities says at least 6 people are dead after severe weather swept across Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas overnight, causing extensive damage and outages.

The five killed in the severe weather included three family members who were found in one home near Valley View, Texas, a sheriff said.

Powerful storms across Texas and Oklahoma obliterated homes and struck a highway travel center where drivers had rushed to take shelter, leaving thousands of people without power and a wide trail of damage Sunday. A sheriff said at least five people were dead in one rural community in Texas and many more were injured.

Sheriff Ray Sappington confirmed the deaths in rural Cooke County in Texas near the Oklahoma border on Saturday night, May 25.

Officials said a tornado north of Dallas overturned heavy recreational vehicles, shut down an interstate and caused extensive damage to a highway travel center

Thousands are without power and homes have become "a trail of debris".

Storms began on Saturday night as tornado overturned vehicles and shut down an interstate north of Dallas