Tornados hit the Midwest (20 images)

Residents take in some of the damage after a severe storm hit in the early morning hours on February 29, 2012, in Harrisburg, Illinois. UPI/Paul Newton/The Southern

Damage is shown at the St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Ridgway, Illinois, after a tornado went through the town on February 29, 2012. UPI/Paul Newton/The Southern

Paulding County school board member Theresa Lyons takes a photo of the damage to a collapsed wall in a classroom at Lillian C. Poole Elementary School after an apparent tornado touch down in Rockmart, Georgia, that also damaged homes and the county's airport, about 45 miles northwest of Atlanta, on March 3, 2012. UPI/David Tulis

A Paulding County Sheriff's deputy directs traffic away from the Clear Creek subdivision after homes were destroyed by reports of tornados touching down in Rockmart, Georgia, about 45 miles northwest of Atlanta, which also damaged a school and the county airport, on March 3, 2012. The National Weather Service said the destructive storms were the second outbreak of severe storms in just three days across much of the central U.S. UPI/David Tulis