There were two more confirmed twisters in Iowa, damaging hail fell in Illinois and wind-whipped grass fires blazed in Oklahoma, part of a massive storm system threatening a broad swath of the country that is home to some 85 million people in the South and Midwest.
A tornado raced through the Arkansas capital and surrounding areas, splintering homes, overturning vehicles and tossing trees and debris on roadways as people raced for shelter.
More than 350,000 people were at risk as the National Weather Service said a "confirmed large and destructive tornado" tore through the Little Rock area.
A monster storm system has torn through the South and Midwest spawning tornadoes that shredded homes and shopping centers, overturned vehicles and uprooted as people raced for shelter. There are reports of at least one dead and two dozen or more injured, some critically, in the area of Little Rock, Arkansas, where a twister caused widespread damage. Another tornado flattened homes in the eastern Arkansas town of Wynne, as unrelenting tornadoes kept moving east. There were more twisters in Iowa, damaging hail in Illinois and wind-whipped grass fires in Oklahoma. The storm system has some 85 million under threat in the South and Midwest.