( CNN ) -- A powerful storm system brought drenching rains , hail and -- in a few cases -- tornadoes to a wide swath of the central United States on Thursday evening , causing damage but no known fatalities . The National Weather Service reported a number of twisters across several states . That includes a tornado spotted around 8:16 p.m. ( 9:16 p.m . ET ) on the ground in St. Louis County , Missouri , near Glendale . About an hour earlier , the agency reported a `` damaging '' twister with quarter-size hail about 50 miles west near Washington . And a tornado was earlier reported in the Osage County community of Rich Fountain . It was not immediately clear whether there was any related injuries or damage in any of these Missouri locales . The weather service also reported twisters Thursday night in the southeastern Missouri community of Doniphan , as well as nearby in Butler County . Denton County , Texas , sheriff 's office spokeswoman Sandi Brackeen said that `` a tornado touched down south of Krum . '' Outbuildings and barns , but no known homes or commercial properties , suffered damage , said county emergency services chief Jody Gonzalez . `` We do have significant hail damage across the county -- downed tree limbs , roof and gutter damage , and busted windows , '' Gonzalez said , adding that some residents `` took pictures of little rope tornadoes that did touch down . '' `` We do not have any reports of injuries , '' Gonzalez said . The weather service has n't confirmed a Krum touchdown , but it did report one about 45 miles east , around Princeton , that crossed U.S. 380 . The agency reported a twister in nearby Farmersville , 30 miles northeast of Dallas . While the threat of tornadoes often dies down when the sun and temperatures go down , that was n't necessarily the case Thursday . St. Louis residents actually awoke Thursday to tornado sirens as a cluster of heavy thunderstorms began moving through . The weather service confirmed a tornado touched down about an hour before sunrise in the St. Louis suburb of University City , gouging a half-mile-by-100-yard path . The weather service gave the tornado an initial rating of EF-1 , packing top winds of 112 miles per hour . The twister knocked down trees and ripped up a gas main in University City , but there were no injuries , University City Mayor Shelley Welsch reported via Twitter . St. Louis County officials said about 100 homes had been damaged . All day , it was n't just strong winds that proved a problem . The national Storm Prediction Center noted reports of large hail falling Thursday in parts of Missouri , Arkansas , Kansas , Oklahoma and Texas . Renato Reyes-Gomez sent CNNiReport a picture of golf-ball-size hail in Denton , Texas , saying he can not recall anything `` ever this big . '' Authorities in Jefferson County , Missouri , made `` a couple of water rescues and evacuated a couple of mobile homes '' due to rising waters there tied to flash-flooding reports that first came in around 2:15 p.m , said the county emergency management spokesman Warren Robinson . While several highways had closed , Robinson did n't know of any significant damage in his eastern Missouri county . Thursday 's spate of tornadoes may have caused some damage and rattled some nerves . But at least it was n't a repeat of what transpired exactly 40 years earlier , when 148 reported twisters killed 330 people across 13 states . The Storm Prediction Center is forecasting a slight risk of severe weather -- down from the moderate risk reported earlier -- for along and around the path of Mississippi River , as well as for a large swath of Texas , including Dallas , Houston , Austin and San Antonio . CNN 's AnneClaire Stapleton , Matt Smith , Henry Hanks and Jennifer Moore contributed to this report .
NEW : There 's a slight risk of severe weather for parts of Missouri , beyond for 40 years earlier . Tornadoes are reported in parts of Arkansas as well as Texas . The threat of twisters continued past sunset in many locales . Those states and others , including Arkansas and Missouri , also see large hail .