Sixth person dies following Oklahoma tornado outbreak - 13 WTHR Indianapolis

A sixth person has died after a tornado ripped through the northwest Oklahoma town of Woodward. No details have been released yet about the latest victim.

Two men and three children were also killed in the tornado that hit the town early Sunday morning.

It's part of a system that stretched from Texas to Minnesota spawning more than 120 twisters. Authorities said warning sirens that did not sound in Woodward may have been disabled when lightning hit the control tower.

Woodward, a small city in Oklahoma, suffered some of the worst devastation.

Bob Starling's home was destroyed.

"If my brother-in-law hadn't called we'd probably be dead because there's all kind of debris piled on our bed where we were sleeping," he said.

Mayor Roscoe Hill says parts of his city were just flattened.

"It's something I've never had to deal with and I don't want to ever have to deal with it again. A really devastating thing to our city," said Hill.

Wichita, Kansas was one of the biggest cities hit. The roof collapsed at an airplane manufacturing plant. A few hundred workers were there, but no one was hurt.

A confirmed tornado struck a hospital in Creston, Iowa, blowing out windows and damaging the roof.

Starling says he's lived in Woodward for 30 years, and he will rebuild.

"It's hard. We're alive; that's all that matters," he said.

Officials say the storms' toll could have been much worse if early warning systems across the region had not been in place. Also, warnings included dire language to alert residents that the storm system posed a serious threat and was not something to be taken lightly.