Winter Tornadoes

Cyerice Martin, right, comforts her sister, Seavia Dixon, left, Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2008 in Akins, Ark., where Dixon's home use to be after a tornado destroyed it Tuesday. A series of twisters tore the roof from a shopping mall, battered mobile homes and laid waste to warehouses in their five-state rampage in the South. At least 47 people were killed and hundreds injured.

Credit: AP Photo/Mike Wintroath