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Devastating tornado hits Okla.

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A child is pulled from the rubble of the Plaza Towers Elementary School in Moore, Okla., and passed along to rescuers.

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A woman is pulled out from under tornado debris at the Plaza Towers School in Moore, Oklahoma.

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A child calls to his father after being pulled from the rubble of the Tower Plaza Elementary School.

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A boy is pulled from beneath a collapsed wall at the Plaza Towers Elementary School following a tornado in Moore, Oklahoma.

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A massive tornado touches down near Shawnee, Oklahoma.

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This photo provided by KFOR-TV shows homes flattened outside Moore, Oklahoma.

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A fire burns in the Tower Plaza Addition in Moore, Oklahoma.

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This photo provided by KFOR-TV shows a house fire outside Moore, Oklahoma.

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This frame grab provided by KWTV shows a tornado that moved through the Oklahoma City area.

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A tornadic thunderstorm passes over Clearwater, in Kansas. A massive storm front swept north through the central United States on Sunday, hammering the region with fist-sized hail, blinding rain and tornadoes, including a half-mile wide twister that struck near Oklahoma City.

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The funnel of a tornadic thunderstorm almost touches the ground near South Haven, in Kansas. A massive storm front swept north through the central United States on Sunday, hammering the region with fist-sized hail, blinding rain and tornadoes, including a half-mile wide twister that struck near Oklahoma City.

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A resident, who did not want to give his name, searches through the rubble of his mobile home in the Steelman Estates Mobile Home Park, destroyed by Sunday's tornado, near Shawnee, Okla..

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Candice Lopez (L) and Stephanie Davis help clean debris from Thelma Cox's mobile home after it was destroyed by a tornado near Shawnee, Oklahoma.

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Volunteers help clean out Jean McAdams' mobile home after it was overturned by a tornado near Shawnee, Oklahoma.

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John Warner surveys the damage near a friend's mobile home in the Steelman Estates Mobile Home Park.