The state of Texas may have just experienced its longest-track tornado in nearly 30 years. While the National Weather Service is still surveying damage from the tornado, all indications are that it touched down Saturday with a path length of at least 85 miles, and probably closer to 100 miles.

At least two died as a severe weather system continued to move east, threatening to whip up tornadoes in parts of the U.S. Southeast.

A tornado that touched down in Brazoria County, Texas, struck some homes and other structures on Saturday, the authorities said. It was a day of tornado warnings in Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi.

At least four tornado sightings across Southeast Texas can be confirmed as tornadoes based on radar and public reporting on Saturday, the National Weather Service said, only days after an earlier twister outbreak on Thursday had damaged several Houston-area homes.

Multiple homes were destroyed between Alvin and Liverpool, Texas, when a possible tornado went through the area Saturday afternoon, according to preliminary reports cited by the Storm Prediction Center.

Multiple tornadoes struck the Houston area on Saturday, killing one person in Brazoria County and injuring four others according to local reports. The severe weather strikes during one of the busiest travel weekends of the year,