Tens of thousands of Dallas residents woke up to no power on Monday after a tornado plowed a long path through the north of the city, leaving power outages and scenes of destruction in its wake.

By 10:30 a.m. CT on Monday, there were 55,000 homes and business without power and 100 traffic signals were down across the city, said Dallas Office of Emergency Management director Rocky Vaz.

This is Iglesias Emanuela church. Completely destroyed. Many members are going inside to salvage, despite it being unsafe. Other members out here just sobbing. pic.twitter.com/tLq8w8jkKT — Sam Blum (@SamBlum3) October 21, 2019

Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson and other city officials said Monday they're grateful there don't appear to be any deaths or serious injuries caused by this storm.

“Considering the path that the storm took, it went across a pretty densely populated part of our city, I think we should consider ourselves very fortunate that we did not lose any lives, no fatalities, and no serious injuries," Johnson told reporters.

The National Weather Service confirmed at 9:48 p.m. (10:48 p.m. ET) Sunday that a tornado had touched down in north and northeast Dallas.

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NBC Dallas-Fort Worth reported that a tornado touched down near Love Field and that its radar indicated that the twister could have tracked for 17 miles.

The station and other news organizations published images and video of downed power lines, debris and scores of emergency personnel on the streets in northwestern parts of the city. Social media photos showed numerous homes with their roofs ripped off and cars damaged on Interstate 35 highway.

"Property damage, we're not unconcerned about that," Mayor Johnson said. "But our top priority has been making sure that everyone in our city is safe."

The Dallas Police Department and Dallas Fire Rescue said they were assessing damaged structures throughout the night. Officers were also going door-to-door in some areas to check on residents, but won't know the full extent of the damage until the sun rises.

Dallas Fire-Rescue tweeted that one of their stations was badly damaged, but no one inside was hurt.

Vaz told "Today" there was "extensive damage" to one small sector of the city, including many rooftops blown away. Only three people were brought to area hospitals, Vaz said, and his department is confident nobody is currently trapped in rubble.

The City of Dallas tweeted that an emergency operations center has been activated as it assesses the damage.

Tina Devlin of Dallas said her home was a "total loss."

"I heard all the snapping of the trees and the wind blowing, and so I climbed into this bedroom closet, and just as I got in there, the roof blew off," Devlin told NBC Dallas-Fort Worth.