Lightning from a thunderstorm passes over Clearwater, Kansas, in an open field on May 19. A massive storm front swept north through the central United States on Sunday, hammering the region with fist-sized hail, blinding rain and tornadoes, including a half-mile wide twister that struck near Oklahoma City.

Austin Brock holds cat Tutti shortly after the animal was retrieved from the rubble of Brock’s home, which was demolished a day earlier when a tornado moved through Moore, Okla., on May 21.