Severe weather continues in central US

Deadly storms struck again yesterday in the states of Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Kansas. It was a storm system that followed the massive, highest-rated EF5 twister that struck Joplin, Mo., on Sunday. The Joplin twister, which killed more than 120 people, is the eighth deadliest storm on record in the United States dating back to 1840. This year's tornado season has produced approximately 1,000 twisters and has taken the lives of more than 300 people. -- Lloyd Young (36 photos total)

Debbie Surlin salvages items from her parent's home in Joplin, Mo. Wednesday, May 25, 2011. The home's residents Beverly and Roy Winans rode out the EF-5 tornado by hiding under a bed in the home. The tornado tore through much of the city Sunday, damaging a hospital and hundreds of homes and businesses and killing at least 123 people. (Charlie Riedel/Associated Press)

In this handout satellite image provided by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),shows the storm system moments before spawning in to a massive tornado which passed through Joplin. (NOAA) #

This frame grab from video shows a massive tornado May 22 outside Joplin. The tornado tore a 6-mile path across southwestern Mo. (Tornadovideo.net/Associated Press) #

A neighborhood destroyed by a powerful tornado is seen in an aerial photo taken over Joplin 24. (Charlie Riedel/Assoctied Press) #

Kyle and Alicia Gordon cry and embrace in their son's room after losing their home to a devastating tornado that hit Joplin. (Eric Thayer/Reuters) #

Armored car courier Josh Beck works on salvaging cash from an ATM which was damaged and tossed approximately 20 feet when a massive tornado passed through the town of Joplin. ( Mario Tama/Getty Images) #

A recovery crew looks for bodies in a destroyed church after a devastating tornado hit Joplin May 25. The death toll from a monster tornado that ravaged Joplin rose to 125 on Wednesday after an overnight search turned up more bodies but no new survivors, authorities said. (Eric Thayer/Reuters) #

A torn American flag stands in the wreckage of a church in Joplin May 24. (Robert Ray/Associated Press) #

People try to salvage items from the Albrecht family home on May 24 after it was destroyed in Joplin. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)#

A destroyed neighborhood is seen in Joplin May 24. (Charlie Riedel/Associated Press) #

Jeannie Owens searches through a family member's destroyed home after a devastating tornado hit Joplin. (Eric Thayer/Reuters) #

A destroyed Home Depot is seen in Joplin May 24. A large tornado moved through much of the city Sunday, damaging a hospital and hundreds of homes and businesses. (Charlie Riedel/Associated Press) #

A door is wrapped around a pole after a devastating tornado hit Joplin. (Eric Thayer/Reuters) #

Shirley Waits pauses as she stands in what was her mother's living room May 25 in Joplin. (Jeff Roberson/Associated Press) #

Damage is seen one day after a tornado tore through Joplin killing at least 122 people on May 24 in Joplin. The tornado that ripped through the town of about 50,000 people May 22, is being called the deadliest single tornado in the U.S. in 60 years. (Krain/Getty Images) #

A destroyed church is seen after a massive tornado passed through the town on May 22. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)#

A sign is seen in front of a destroyed home after a devastating tornado hit Joplin. (Eric Thayer/Reuters) #

Members of the St. Louis Metro Urban Search & Rescue Strike Team 3 conduct a secondary search for victims of a tornado after it struck Joplin. Search teams accompanied by cadaver dogs on May 24 picked their way through the rubble of thousands of homes and businesses. (Ed Zurga/Reuters) #

Pete Anastosopolos and Cyndi Devore sort through what is left of her home that was destroyed after a massive tornado passed through the town of Joplin. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images) #

Megan Scott, (from left) Tucker Scott, and grandmother Peggy Esch look through the rubble of the Scott's home May 24 after a massive tornado passed through the town. (Julie Denesha/Getty Images) #

Jim Kerr and his wife Carol Kerr take a break from clearing debris from the front lawn on May 23 Joplin. "I worked for the Red Cross for 22 years and I have never seen anything of this magnitude in all the years we've lived here. " Carol said. (Julie Denesha/Getty Images) #

A statue is seen in front of a destroyed home in Joplin May 25. (Eric Thayer/Reuters) #

A piece of wood is impaled into a building after a massive tornado passed through the town of Joplin killing at least 123 people. (Mario Tama/Getty Images) #

Damage is seen from the air one day after a tornado tore through Joplin. (Benjamin Krain/Getty Images) #

Much of Joplin lays in rubble after a massive tornado passed through the town May 22. (Benjamin Krain/Getty Images) #

Head of a triage center west of St. John's hospital (left) assesses an injury to volunteer Rosie Tizzard with Oklahoma City nurse Tammy Gassaway (right) after Tizzard slipped on a tile floor during a search for survivors in Joplin May 23. (Adam Wisneski/Tulsa World)#

Breanna Hoosier (left) and her sister Becca Hoosier sit on their cots as their family takes shelter in the Red Cross shelter May 24 setup at Missouri State Southern College after a massive tornado destroyed their home in Joplin. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images) #

Rebecca Watts walks by a car stuck in a tree after being destroyed by a tornado north of El Reno, Okla. on May 24. The high-powered storms arrived Tuesday night and early Wednesday, just days after a massive tornado tore up the southwest city of Joplin. (Chris Landsberger/The Oklahoman/Associated Press) #

Ken Lown of the Carthage Fire Department peers into the basement of a house during a search and rescue mission in Joplin May 24. (Julie Denesha/Getty Images) #

Kathryn Fields and Austin Gilbert prepare to hang an American flag in front of Fields' family's destroyed home after a devastating tornado hit Joplin. (Eric Thayer/Reuters) #

Wheelchairs salvaged from the wreckage of the Greenbriar nursing home sit in the facility's parking lot in Joplin May 24. (Mark Schiefelbein/Associated Press) #

An official searches for a missing child near the lake shore after a tornado ripped through the Falcon Lake area of Piedmont, Ok May 24. Several tornadoes touched down in Oklahoma on Tuesday afternoon, the largest one striking El Reno, west of Oklahoma City, and continuing to the northeast, the National Weather Service said. (Bill Waugh/Reuters) #

Elizabeth Vandenberg stretches her arms out as she jokingly tells her friends that her living room view now has "wide open spaces", as she salvages what she can from her trailer after it was destroyed when a tornado passed through the town on May 25 in Denning, Ak. The storm passed through the town damaging many of the homes as the region continues to deal with deadly tornados. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images) #

A half-mile-wide tornado moves north in Canadian County after having just crossed SH-3, the Northwest Expressway, west of SH-4 moving towards Piedmont, Ok. Tuesday, May 24. (Paul Southerland/The Oklahoman/Associated Press) #

A house is left as a pile of rubble after being destroyed by a tornado west of El Reno, Ok May 24. (hris Landsberger/The Oklahoman/Associated Press) #

Bruce Hawkins takes a break from clean up at his moderately damaged home in a heavily devastated Joplin neighborhood May 25. An EF-5 tornado tore through much of the city Sunday, damaging a hospital and hundreds of homes and businesses and killing at least 123 people. (Charlie Riedel/Assoctiated Press) #

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