Photo: Strange Winter-Tornadoes Tear Through Midwest, Kill One

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Lightning flashes through the sky as neighbors look through the wreckage of a home destroyed by a tornado near Niangua, Missouri, on Monday, January 7, 2008.

A freak cluster of winter tornadoes raked across an unseasonably warm Midwest.

At least one person was killed by the weather events on Monday night in southwest Missouri.

Photograph by Mark Schiefelbein/AP

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