The small Tennessee town of Selmer awoke on Thursday to scenes of utter devastation, the aftermath of a brutal tornado that pulverized homes into piles of debris.

Early Thursday morning the National Weather Service out of Memphis reported two large tornadoes near Selmer. Here's what we know so far.

She pulled Polaroid pictures from the debris pile that was once her home. Stacy Thompson sifted through the rubble in this flat, warped landscape of schrapnel and debris. She picked the pictures out of the clay mud.