An "extremely dangerous" tornado collapsed an abandoned building and grazed police headquarters Tuesday night in Mineral Wells, Texas, west of Dallas, authorities told NBC News.
Mineral Wells police told NBC News that the twister collapsed an abandoned bank building behind the Baker Hotel, which is on the National Register of Historic Places.
An old mercantile building was also hit, and the tornado passed by police headquarters, which wasn't seriously damaged.
No injuries were reported in the immediate aftermath of the tornado, which touched down near a highway one mile west of town at 7:25 p.m. (8:25 p.m. ET) and headed straight for downtown, the National Weather Service's Fort Worth office said.
There was "so much damage there's been no assessment," a dispatcher for the Palo Pinto County Sheriff's Office told NBC News.
The Texas Department of Public Safety confirmed that several commercial buildings had sustained structural damage, and it urged people to stay out of downtown Mineral Wells, an old Texas mining town of about 16,000.
Power lines were down, and and debris and damaged buildings could cause injuries, it said.
The twisters appeared to be the products of a severe thunderstorm system that spun off tornadoes across Texas and Oklahoma, The Weather Channel reported.
Other tornadoes were spotted near Purcell and Lexington, Oklahoma, near Oklahoma City, and near Waxahachie, McCamey and Bakersfield in Texas, it said. No significant injuries were reported.
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