Midwest Monster

The Twin Cinema in Van Wert, Ohio, is damaged after tornadoes touched down in Van Wert, Sunday, Nov. 10, 2002.

Annette Benschoter surveys the remains of her 35-foot travel trailer, Monday, Nov. 11, 2002, south of Bowling Green, Ohio. People caught in the path of a storm called it the black wall and the monster.

Steven Graves, left, and his wife Thomothy Graves, right, and their German shepherd look for the dog's missing puppies, underneath the wreckage of what was their mobile home, in Portland, Tenn., Sunday, Nov. 10, 2002.

John Denardi and Gina Slater, right, sort through what's left of the mobile home of their neighbors, Dennis and Karen Louise Tooby, after a tornado destroyed the home in Clarksville, Tenn., Sunday, Nov. 10, 2002. Both of the Toobys were killed.

Jennifer Patrick, 13, watches the flurry of activity as friends and relatives sift through the wreckage of a trailer park on Wooten Johnson Road, Sunday, Nov. 10, 2002, in Covington, Tenn.

Steve Beck, owner of Dedicated Fleet Logistics, a trucking and warehouse business in Van Wert, Ohio, views his building that was demolished by a tornado Sunday, Nov. 10, 2002.

Jean Mayfield, right, is hugged by her friend Ella Barrett as they inspect the damage to Mayfield's Carbon Hill, Ala., home Monday, Nov. 11, 2002.

A truck lies in the median after being blown off the road by a tornado on Interstate 24 near Manchester, Tenn. late at night on Sunday, Nov. 10, 2002.

Don Bledsoe throws clothes in a pile as he recovers what he can from a neighbor's trailer that was demolished by a tornado in Clarksville, Tenn. on Sunday, Nov. 10, 2002. Two people in the trailer were killed.

A neighbor helps to clear Road E of debris from Nathan and Tegan Huff's mobile home after the home was destroyed by a tornado near Continental, Ohio, Sunday, Nov. 10, 2002.

A car sits upright against a house that was partially swept away after a tornado touched down Sunday, Nov. 10, 2002, in Port Clinton, Ohio.

Friends and family salvage what they can from the remains of the Wilson home, that was destroyed by a tornado, Sunday, Nov. 10, 2002, near Continental, Ohio. Most of the home was destroyed, but nobody was home at the time.

Jean Mayfield weeps in front of her destroyed home in Carbon Hill, Ala., Monday, Nov. 11, 2002. A nighttime swarm of tornadoes and powerful thunderstorms belted Alabama.

A tornado touches down near West Mansfield, Ohio, in the eastern part of Logan County Sunday, Nov. 10, 2002. Emergency crews searched for survivors early Monday amid the wreckage from a series of pulverizing tornadoes that barreled through Alabama, Tennessee and Ohio.