(NEW YORK) -- Record-breaking winter weather Thursday struck millions of Americans across the nation's midsection. 

In Texas, a possible tornado damaged about 25 homes and left a 74-year-old woman dead after a tree fell onto a mobile home, according to Sabine County Sheriff Tom Maddox.

Highways were closed from Nebraska through Missouri and Kansas as the storm rolled through, bringing up to more than a foot of snow in some places. 

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