Severe weather hit the Midwest, with reports of almost 100 tornadoes destroying entire towns and killing at least six people. It has been an early start to the tornado season causing concerns of another record year of destruction.
Tornadoes Hit Great Plains of the U.S.
A tornado forms and touches down north of Soloman, Kansas April 14, 2012. (AP Photo)
John Doak, left, Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner, and Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin, center, tour a tornado damaged home in Woodward, Oklahoma April 15, 2012. (AP Photo)
This graphic provided April 13, 2012 by NOAA's Storm Prediction Center shows a high risk of severe weather in portions of Kansas and Oklahoma on April 14. According to forecasters, there was a 60 percent chance of tornadoes, high wind and hail within 25 m
The Boeing Company facility in Wichita, Kansas was damaged April 15, 2012 after tornadoes moved through the area. The reported tornado that struck Wichita caused damage at McConnell Air Force Base and the Spirit AeroSystems and Boeing plants. Sedgwick Cou
Shelly Hobbie, right, the mother of tornado victim Frank "Skip" Hobbie, is hugged by Cory Brown, left, at the site of what is left of her son's mobile home at the Hideaway Mobile Home Villa in Woodward, Oklahoma April 15, 2012. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)
A woman is framed in the doorway of a damaged home in Thurman, Iowa April 15, 2012. Iowa emergency officials said a large part of the town in the western part of the state was destroyed, possibly by a tornado, but no one was injured or killed. Fremont Cou
John Doak, left, Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner, and Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin, center, tour a tornado damaged home in Woodward, Oklahoma April 15, 2012. Residents of several states scoured through the wreckage of battered homes and businesses after doze
An aerial view of the destruction of the Oaklawn neighborhood in Wichita, Kansas April 15, 2012. The damage was caused by one of several tornadoes in the state. (AP Photo/Jeff Tuttle)