Terrifying moment 80mph winds rip back window out of woman's car and hurl it to one side, leaving her fearful she was going to die

A Houston woman said she feared for her life after gale-force winds picked her car off the ground and blew out her back window. 

Darlene Brown was in her car waiting to pick up her brother last week when a severe storm blew through the Texas city, which killed seven people and brought dangerous flooding. 

Footage captured the moment the storm battered Brown's Toyota Corolla, ripping out the rear windshield and lifting it off its back wheels. 

'I thought I was actually going to blow away in the air,' Brown told ABC13, as she recalled telling herself: 'It's going to sweep me out this car... I'm going to die.' 

Shocking footage captured the moment severe storms swept through Houston, Texas last week, which ripped a rear window from a Toyota Corolla and lifted it off its rear wheels 

The owner of the car, Darlene Brown, said she feared for her life as her car was battered by the storms 

Brown was waiting outside Wells Fargo Plaza to pick her brother up from work, but had to stay longer than expected. 

'He called me and said, 'I'm stuck in the elevator,' she said. 

As she sat on the street, Brown said the storm blew through in a matter of moments, bringing heavy winds and rain across the city and sending debris flying. 

Thousands of windows across the plaza were destroyed, and Brown said she got on the phone with her sister to calm herself as shards of glass and debris battered the street. 

'I say, "I'm about to die." I say, "It's gonna sweep me out this car. I'm gonna die,"' she recalled telling her sister. 

The footage of the storm hitting her car was filmed by attorney Michael Lombardino, who shared the footage from his dashcam, and Brown said she realized her car later made it onto the news. 

The huge winds lifted her car off its rear wheels and pushed it several feet to the side of the curb, and Brown said it 'felt like I was going up in the air.' 

'I felt like it had picked it up and moved it, and I thought it was gonna take it away,' she added. 

Brown called her sister to wait out the storm, and recalled telling her, 'I'm going to die' 

In an unfortunate twist, Brown said that while she thankfully came away from the storm uninjured, when she returned home she found a tree had partially fallen on her home

In an unfortunate twist, Brown said that while she thankfully came away from the storm uninjured, when she returned home she found a tree had partially fallen on her home. 

'It couldn't get any worse. I just say, well, I don't know what we gonna do now,' she said. 

Brown said she was able to remove the tree without any significant damage, but is still waiting to get back on the road as her car is in the repair shop.