Volunteers clean up at Wynne High School, Saturday, April 1, 2023, near the front entrance of the school on E. Jackson Avenue in Wynne, Ark., following severe weather the previous night. [Nena Zimmer/The Jonesboro Sun via AP]
A large tornado tore through southeastern Missouri before dawn on Wednesday, killing at least five people and causing widespread destruction as a broad swath of the Midwest and South kept a wary eye out for further storms that could spawn additional twisters and hail.