After the storm
Dark clouds roll over the wreckage left behind in Moore, Oklahoma, after a colossal tornado swept in on May 20, levelling whole swathes of the town and killing 24 people.
The tornado's winds exceeded 200 miles per hour, flattened entire blocks and demolished two schools and a hospital on its 17-mile (27-km) rampage through central Oklahoma.
Memorial Day fireworks explode over a house damaged by the May 20 tornado.
Evening light illuminates debris caught in a tree.
The twisted wreckage of a car lies on top of a pile of debris one week after the storm.
Jason Owen helps his mother salvage belongings from her uncle's home.
Eleven-year-old Junior Morales (left) and his cousin David Manazano, 13, look at damage caused to their aunt's house.
A group of men lift a wall in an effort to save belongings from their tornado-stricken homes.
A man and two children come out of a shelter after debris left by the storm was cleared from its entrance.
Sarah Dick reads a Doctor Seuss book to her three-year-old daughter Jadyn in the driveway of her home.
Joanna Hatton cleans debris off the foundation of a house.
Danielle Stephan holds her boyfriend Thomas Layton as they pause while salvaging belongings from a relative’s home.
A mannequin of a Star Wars movie character stands on the pavement.
Taylor Tennyson sits in the front yard as members of her family go through the remains of their home.
Zoey Eslin poses for a portrait while helping her family fix a relative’s grave that was damaged by the tornado.
Two girls stand among rubble left by the storm.
A sign outside the Plaza Towers Elementary School, where seven children died in the tornado, says that May 22 was to be "Super Kids Day" in Moore.
Mourners Kim Early (left) and Lauri Early embrace at a memorial outside the elementary school.
A view from above shows whole blocks of Moore that were destroyed by the storm.
The tornado approaches on May 20.
