Many had spent a harrowing Tuesday night punctuated by breaking glass and warning sirens as the tornadoes tossed trailer homes into the air, collapsed the roof of a Sears store in Memphis, whittled away half a Caterpillar plant near Oxford, Miss., and shredded dorms at Union University in Jackson, Tenn., where crews rescued nine students trapped in the rubble.
My parents' room, which was where the thieves had concentrated their search, looked as if it had been tornado-tossed.
As a result, "I was swept up in a tornado and tossed from one tumult to another, caught in a waking nightmare like a sleepwalker assailed by poltergeists".
The tornado struck, tossing the women's Mercury Sable a quarter of a mile and flattening the institute's building.
A tornado will toss debris violently, and a fire will be fueled by such items.
Mother & baby killed after SUV is tossed by tornado.
Near the town, a possible tornado unroofed a barn and tossed the structure 225 feet; this building previously had withstood the effects of Hurricane Carla in 1961.
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The barn-style building that housed offices and a restaurant had caved in, and the maze of cattle pens behind it was cluttered with chairs and furniture tossed into the air by the tornado.
At least 38 people were killed, state emergency officials said Sunday, as the deadly storms blew across the Midwest and South late last week, spawning dozens of tornadoes that destroyed buildings, knocked down power lines and tossed around vehicles.
Men stared wordlessly into the ripped-out interiors of workshops, the contents hurled and tossed and twisted about as if by a tornado.
