A massive storm system sliced through the country this weekend, leveling homes, spurring crashes and killing at least 39 people in more than a half-dozen states. The system spawned at least 81 tornadoes across eight states since Friday: Mississippi,

A dangerous tornado outbreak which started on Friday evening continued into the first half of the weekend with nearly 2 dozen deaths across the nation's heartland and South.

The dynamic storm from Friday through Sunday had earned an unusual “high risk” designation from weather forecasters.

Violent tornadoes and high winds decimated homes, wiped out schools and toppled semitractor-trailers as a monster storm that also produced dust storms and icy conditions killed at least 33 people across the central and southern U.