Dozens of tornadoes batter Midwest as twisters rip through hospitals, homes and tear apart entire TOWNS... and the worst is yet to Come!

Dozens of tornadoes were spotted across the Midwest and Plains Saturday as an outbreak of unusually strong weather seized the region, and forecasters sternly warned that 'life-threatening' weather could intensify overnight.

Storms were reported in Kansas, Iowa, Nebraska and Oklahoma. Emergency officials in Iowa said that high winds or a tornado damaged a hospital in Creston, but no injuries were reported. Authorities also said about 75 percent of the small western Iowa community of Thurman was destroyed, with no injuries reported there either.

In Nebraska, baseball-sized hail shattered windows and ripped siding from houses. In Oklahoma, more than 5,000 people gathered for a rattlesnake hunt in Woods County scattered when a tornado touched down there, said the county's emergency management director, Steve Foster.

National Weather Service forecasters issued sobering outlooks that the worst of the weather would hit around nightfall, predicting that conditions were right for exceptionally strong tornadoes. Weather officials and emergency management officials worried most about what would happen if strong storms hit when people were sleeping, not paying attention to weather reports and unlikely to hear warning sirens. When it's dark, it's also more difficult for weather spotters to clearly see funnel clouds or tornadoes.

'This could go into, certainly, to overnight situations, which is always of immense concern to us,' said Michelann Ooten, an official with the Oklahoma Department of Emergency Management. Read More