A tornado passes near Sedalia, Mo., Sunday, March 12, 2006. The twister, which at times was up to one-half mile wide, displaced 100 to 150 residents on a diagonal path from eight miles south of Sedalia to eight miles east of town, an official said. Violent weather during the weekend, part of a line of storms that stretched from the southern Plains up the Ohio Valley, continued Monday.
Kelly Irnen, 9, searches through rubble left behind at her Nixa, Mo., home Monday, March 13, 2006, after a tornado swept through southern Missouri and southern Illinois. The family was trapped in the home, and neighbors dug them out.
A chair sits on the edge of the foundation Monday, 13, 2006, at a home that was destroyed Sunday in a tornado that ripped through Renick, Mo. The woman inside the home died of injuries from the destruction. Tornados from the storm left four people dead in the small town.
The roof of a home sits in the driveway in front of home in a subdivision damaged by a possible tornado in Bentonville, Ark., Sunday, March 12, 2006.
An SUV sits in front of a home damaged by a possible tornado in Bentonville, Ark., Sunday, March 12, 2006.
Lightning flashes over Maquoketa, Iowa, Sunday, March 12, 2006, as heavy storms pass through the area.
A mobile home, which fell on a woman, killing her, sits on its side after a tornado ripped through the area Sunday, March 12, 2006, south of Sedalia, Mo.
A semi-truck drives slowly along Interstate 70 on Sunday, March 12, 2006, near Boonville, Mo., as hail falls. The hailstorm caused traffic to slow to a stop and caused several accidents when a severe storm tore through the area.
The back wall of the Carter-Waters Distribution Center in Kansas City, Mo., was blown in by storms that moved through the area Sunday, March 12, 2006. Powerful tornadoes ripped across southern Missouri and southern Illinois during the night, destroying homes along a path of more than 20 miles.
A bent water pump in the foreground indicated the force of a tornado that hit south of Sedalia, Mo., on Sunday, March 12, 2006. Jeff Ward, 13, takes a look into a friend's house, in Pettis County, south of Sedalia, that was heavily damaged by the tornado.
Addie Mehl helps clean up debris of what was a farm shop/machine shed at Pendleton's Country Market on Sunday, March 12, 2006, after a tornado ripped through the area near Lawrence, Kan.
Pavel Kozhukarenko, 14, sits on the steps of his home in Pettis County, south of Sedalia, Mo., Sunday, March 12, 2006, after taking refuge in the basement from a tornado that ripped through the area Saturday night. Powerful tornadoes tore across southern Missouri and southern Illinois during the night, destroying homes along a path of more than 20 miles.
Boone County Sheriff's Department Sgt. Mike J. Krohn Jr. observes the flooding on Brown School Road after a severe thunderstorm passed through Columbia, Mo., Sunday, March 12, 2006.
A funnel cloud is seen near Green Ridge just south of Sedalia, Mo., Sunday, March 12, 2006.
Debris from an abandoned mobile home is scattered along a field Sunday, March 12, 2006, just south of Blackwater, Mo., after storm swept through the area.
Orville and Dorothy Jennings, with their nephew Shorty Wissman, right, inspect the damage Sunday, March 12, 2006, to an equipment barn on the couple's farm south of Sedalia, Mo.
Melinda Stofferahn sits in a chair next to an uprooted tree as she watches neighbors clean up debris from the area Sunday, March 12, 2006, in Lawrence, Kan. A storm system swept through northeast Kansas and northwest Missouri ripping roofs off homes, businesses, the University of Kansas and the Great Wolf Lodge Indoor Water Park.
A Uniontown, Kan., resident holds a piece of hail that fell in his yard Sunday, March 12, 2006, shortly after a storm system swept through northeast Kansas and northwest Missouri.
Tornado victims search the area for personal items, Sunday, March 12, 2006, in the area where several houses and mobile homes were destroyed by a twister near St. Mary, Mo.
A tractor trailer carrying several giant rolls of paper overturned on northbound Interstate 435 in Kansas City, Mo., on Sunday, March 12, 2006. According to tow crews and a police officer on the scene, the truck was overturned by strong winds or a microburst passing through the area. One tow operator said the rolls of paper weigh 6,000 pounds each.