Tornadoes cropped up throughout the Midwest Sunday as part of a storm system that stretched from Texas to Minnesota, ultimately killing one and injuring more than 21 individuals.
Specifically, they were spotted in Iowa, Kansas and Oklahoma, with Steelman Estates Mobile Home Park, located 35 miles southeast of Oklahoma City, Okla. coming in as one of the hardest hit areas.
“It took a dead hit,” resident James Hoke told CBS News. “Everything is gone.”
Among the rubble, Hoke said, was his father-in-law whom they found buried under the house.
“We had to pull Sheetrock off of him,” Hoke said.
Meanwhile, another tornado grazed the town of Edmond, Okla., where it dropped hail the size of grapefruit before heading east.
According to ABC, aerial flyovers showed significant property damage in Wellston, Okla., as well.
In Wichita, Kan., a tornado touched down near Mid-Content Airport where it knocked out power to thousands with winds reaching 110 mph.
And while the tornado by-passed the most populated areas of the city, as Wichita’s Mayor Carl Brewer told Fox News, the city was still hit by high winds and golf ball-sized hail.
“That alone, and the rain, actually just really did a number on the city,” he said. “It was so bad you think a tornado came through.”
According to the Des Moines Register, a tornado passed through an area 30 miles west of Des Moines.
Furthermore, as meteorologist Kurt Kotenberg explained to USA Today, the threat isn’t over yet.
The low-pressure system is still hovering over the middle of the country and "really isn't going to move much over the course of the next few days. … It's basically going to keep pulling up that nice Gulf moisture that keeps fueling everything."
The events come less than a week after tornadoes left six dead and dozens more injured and hundreds of homes destroyed in the Dallas Fort Worth area in Texas.
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