Damage from severe storms and tornadoes in several towns in Missouri, Illinois and Mississippi. - Winds sparked more than 100 wildfires in the central U.S.; homes and structures

Violent tornadoes and high winds decimated homes, wiped out schools and toppled semitractor-trailers as a monster storm that killed at least 32 people ripped its way across the central and southern U.

Residents are surveying damage from unusually vicious weather in multiple U.S. states where violent twisters, blinding dust storms and fast-moving wildfires decimated entire neighborhoods.