A leader of a North Texas county where six people died in a tornado has described a storm-damaged neighborhood as “total devastation.”

Hood County Commissioner Steve Berry before dawn today surveyed the damage in Granbury, about 40 miles southwest of Fort Worth.

Berry, who was a firefighter for more than 20 years, says the Ranch Brazos neighborhood has about 100 mobile homes and wood structures. He says a lot of the mobile homes were “wadded up” and rolled during last night’s twister.

Berry says all of the homes have significant damage and as many as half were destroyed. He says a lot of homes were built by volunteers with Habitat for Humanity.

Berry says houses can be rebuilt over time but the loss of a life is devastating to families.

The National Weather Service said the preliminary storm estimate for Wednesday night’s tornado in Granbury was an EF-4, based on the Fujita tornado damage scale. That means the storm carried wind speeds of 166 mph to 200 mph.