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Severe storms are possible Saturday morning across Deep East Texas

(Explicit language in videos) Scattered storms dotted the East Texas map on Saturday afternoon and evening.  Most of those storms provided brief heavy downpours and quite a few lightning strikes, however, a cell that moved through Polk County produced a short-lived tornado.

One minute after she sought refuge in her bathtub, she found herself in the woods with a few bruises and scratches, but relatively unharmed.

Listen to this father keep his kids from panicking as they take shelter in the bathroom.  He video-tapes the possible tornado as it forms over a Lindale neighborhood on Saturday, and it went on to damage several homes.  Would you be this calm?

The baseball program in Van was one of many things that suffered after the May tornado, and the Texas Rangers have chipped in to help.

On Sunday more than 80 tornadoes tore through the Midwest, killing at least six people in Illinois, injuring dozens more, leveling homes and businesses, and leaving a swath of destruction from Missouri through Michigan.

Today in Lufkin and Nacogdoches we have the chance of heavy rain with embedded thunderstorms, but the situation doesn't appear to be anything like what North Texas saw last night. As many as ten possible tornadoes ripped through areas west of Dallas-Fort Worth Wednesday night, and left 250 people homeless, 100 injured, and 6 dead.  Changes to those numbers could come today as emergency responders