Fierce storms rolling across Arkansas killed seven people Friday, including a teenager as she slept in her bed and a father and son.

Police said the 15-year-old girl was killed when a tree fell through a bedroom at her home in Siloam Springs in north Arkansas. The father and son were in their mobile home in central Arkansas when they were killed, the Conway County Sheriff's Office said.

Three deaths also were confirmed in Van Buren County, and one in Pulaski County. At least 13 people were injured throughout the state, emergency officials said.

Gov. Mike Beebe said in an afternoon news conference that National Guard members already were fanning out to provide storm relief. He declared seven counties state disaster areas for the damage they suffered in the storms. They are: Benton, Cleburne, Conway, Grant, Pulaski, Saline and Van Buren.

The storms spawned numerous tornadoes in different parts of Arkansas, where some 350 homes were damaged or destroyed, emergency officials said. At least two schools and a fire station were damaged.

Greg Carbin, a meteorologist for the national Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Okla., said as many as 25 tornadoes may have cut through stretches of Oklahoma, Arkansas, eastern Kansas and western Missouri.

A cold front set off the severe weather. The National Weather Service issued tornado warnings for several counties in central and north Arkansas, while trained spotters reported a tornado down near Damascus and another near Carlisle. There also were unconfirmed reports of tornadoes at Center Ridge and near Greers Ferry, and law enforcement agencies reported tornado sightings in East End, Hensley, Keo, and Woodson.

"This year it just seems like we're getting pounded," Van Buren County Sheriff Scott Bradley said.

In Damascus, where property damage was extensive, Randy Payne, 38, hid in a hallway at his aunt and uncle's house.

"It sounded like all hell was breaking loose," Payne said.

Payne and his family walked outside of their single story ranch home, finding trees down in their front yard, shingles blown off their house and standing water on some of the home's floors.

Just north of Damascus on U.S. Highway 65, the storm knocked over trees as it moved northeast, directly hitting Southside Baptist Church, which was building an addition. Members of a work crew ran inside after a neighbor warned them of the coming storm. They said it was total silence as the storm approached.

"Everybody was afraid," said Jesus Estrada, 22, a worker.

After the storm ripped through, he and others went down the street and helped firefighters help others out of their homes.

At Siloam Springs, a 10-year-old boy was rescued from the same bedroom where the teenager was killed. Police said he was taken to Siloam Springs Memorial Hospital, where he was in good condition, and was expected to be released.

Conway County Sheriff Mike Smith said the father and his son died when storms hit near Birdtown. To the north, storms hitting south of Bee Branch in Van Buren County killed two people and their young granddaughter.

Brandon Baker, Conway County emergency services director, said six people with "pretty severe" injuries were taken to a local hospital. Ten to 20 homes were destroyed in a rural area, and more sustained damage.

State emergency officials said more than 100 homes were damaged in Cleburne County. Officials also received reports of property damage in Benton, Franklin, Howard, Newton, Pope and Van Buren counties.

By late Friday afternoon, "a large and extremely dangerous" tornado caused heavy damage in the east Arkansas town of Earle as it headed toward the Mississippi River border with Tennessee, the National Weather Service said. State emergency officials said a possible tornado also hit near Parkin, and a factory there was damaged along with Earle High School, but no injuries were reported.

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Wes Morrison, 24, who grew up at Earle but now attends Mississippi State in Starkville, Miss., said he was back in town to work on his family's farm. He and his father were at a convenience store when a friend called and warned them about the severe weather heading for the town.

"Dad and I took off," Morrison said, driving quickly across town to the home of Morrison's grandparents. "As we were going down Main Street, you could just see that cloud twirling around."

When he looked back just before arriving at his grandparents' house, Morrison said, "all I saw was debris" in the air.

He and his father made it to an inside bathroom of the home just before the tornado came through, Morrison said.

"I don't think it lasted but 10 seconds," he said. "When it was over, the First Baptist Church of Earle, which is just across the street from my grandparents' house - it's gone."

The weather service received reports of multiple tornadoes touching down around the state - near Belfast and Sheridan in Grant County, Birdtown and Center Ridge in Conway County, Damascus in Van Buren County, Hensley, Keo and Woodson in Pulaski County, East End in Saline County, Carlisle in Lonoke County, and Hazen and near Des Arc in Prairie County.

The strong winds, rains and hail blew out electric service to nearly 6,000 homes and businesses. Entergy spokesman James Thompson said that as of midmorning, 2,067 customers at Harrison in north Arkansas were without power, 2,602 lost service in Russellville and 1,170 in Dardanelle, both in west-central Arkansas.

Heavy rain could add to flooding problems in north and northeast Arkansas.

There have been more than 700 preliminary reports of tornadoes this year, but the final number of confirmed tornadoes is expected to be lower.

The Weather Service has confirmed 84 tornadoes nationwide for January - compared with a three-year average of 34 - and February was busier than usual, as well, Carbin said. He said it generally takes about two months to confirm actual numbers of tornadoes.

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