Storms that raked the Plains and Southeast tossed up a mobile home in Missouri early Thursday, killing both people inside, and spawned a tornado in Florida that sent mall shoppers and children at a day-care center running for cover, according to AP. More than 30 people were injured Wednesday night when high winds blew through an Oktoberfest festival in Tulsa, Oklahoma, collapsing two tents on the crowd. In rural northeastern Missouri, the state Highway Patrol said Kent Ensor and Kristy Secrease had sought refuge in Secrease's mobile home as a possible tornado approached. Their bodies were found about 400 feet (122 meters) from where the home had been; 12 hours after the storm's arrival after midnight, there was still no sign of the home itself. The National Weather Service was still trying to verify tornado reports Thursday afternoon. Several twisters hit southwestern Missouri, where a home was destroyed but no injuries were reported. A tornado late Thursday morning in Pensacola, Florida, damaged the city's major shopping mall as violent thunderstorms swept across the western Panhandle.
