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As many as 28 tornadoes ripped through the Midwest Sunday night, leaving two dead.

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As many as 28 tornadoes have torn through Oklahoma, Kansas, Iowa, and Illinois since Sunday night, and more may touch down today. So far two deaths have been reported, both in Shawnee, Oklahoma. About 300 homes were destroyed in the state yesterday, injuring at least 23 people. A tornado near Wellston, Oklahoma, appeared to be a half mile wide. CNN says more storms, hail, and possibly tornadoes may hit Monday.

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Lightning from a tornadic thunderstorm passes over Clearwater, Kansas, on Sunday. 

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Storm chasers get close to a tornadic thunderstorm, one of several tornadoes that touched down, in South Haven, Kansas, on Sunday. 

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Lee Hoyle of Chickasaw Nation Search and Rescue digs through the debris of a mobile home in the Steelman Estates Mobile Home Park, destroyed by Sunday's tornado, near Shawnee, Oklahoma, on Monday. Authorities say two men in their 70s have been found dead in or near a mobile home park outside Shawnee.

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South Haven, Kansas, on Sunday. 

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Maeghan Hadley, of 1 Day Ranch pet rescue, checks over a kitten pulled from under the rubble of a mobile home destroyed by Sunday’s tornado in the Steelman Estates Mobile Home Park, near Shawnee, Oklahoma.

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