New pictures of the tornado in USA 2011

Over 200 are dead after over a hundred separate tornadoes left a trail of destruction across five states in the American South. The nation appears headed for a record number of tornadoes this year. The Federal Emergency Management Agency has been mobilized to deal with the aftermath. Tornado watches were issued for the entire East Coast as the storm system that caused the destruction yesterday moved to new ground. -- Lane Turner

Tornado in USA 2011:

Over 200 are dead after over a hundred separate tornadoes left a trail of destruction across five states in the American South.

Rescue workers search a hillside after a tornado ripped through parts of Concord, Ala. April 27. (Jeff Roberts/Birmingham News/AP

Faye Hyde sits on a mattress in what was her yard as she comforts her granddaughter Sierra Goldsmith, 2, in Concord, Ala. April 27. Their home was destroyed. A wave of tornado-spawning storms strafed the South on Wednesday, splintering buildings across hard-hit Alabama and killing nearly 200 people in four states. At least 58 people died in Alabama alone. (Jeff Roberts/The Birmingham News/AP)

A large tornado sweeps through Limestone County, south of Athens, Ala., April 27. (Gary Cosby Jr./The Decatur Daily/AP)

An injured man is carried away after a tornado touched down April 27 in Birmingham. (Bernard Troncale/The Birmingham News/AP)

Overnight tornadoes left part of Pratt City, Alabama in ruins April 28. (Marvin Gentry/Reuters)

Bystanders look at storm damage along 15th Street in Tuscaloosa April 27. (Dusty Compton/The Tuscaloosa News/AP)

Pleasant Grove, Ala., sits devastated after an April 27 tornado. (Butch Dill/AP)

Concrete steps lead to nothing after a tornado demolished a mobile home in Preston, Miss. April 27. The home and one next to it were blown about 100 feet away into a cow pasture. Three related women died at the site. (Rogelio V. Solis/AP)

Michael Dunn is hugged by his mother Patricia Dunn as they stand in the road that lead to his house which was destroyed after a tornado touched down April 27 in Concord, Ala. (Jeff Roberts/Birmingham News/AP)

Judy Cook, who lost her home, is comforted by Chase Spradlin in Concord, Ala. April 27. (Jeff Roberts/Birmingham News/AP)

Homes near Athens, Ala. lie destroyed following a large tornado that cut a path through Lawrence, Morgan, and Limestone Counties April 27. Kevin Harrison and his wife Sara Beth hold their children, Mason and Sophie, as they emerge from a safe room, the only thing that survived of their house. (Gary Cosby Jr./The Decatur Daily/AP)

Emergency volunteers move a body recovered among the devastation in Smithville, Miss. after a tornado destroyed much of the small town April 27. (C. Todd Sherman/The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal/AP)