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• "Everyone is welcome to come into it," she said. "In fact, people were pulling off the highways and were just running in."
• She said the men held the cellar doors shut while the tornado's winds tried to rip them open.
• "It sounded like a constant rolling, roaring sound," she said. "Trees were really bending and the light poles were actually shaking and moving. That's before we shut the door and we've only shut the door to the storm cellar two times."
• The other time was during the 2011 storm.
• The Arkansas Department of Emergency Management raised the Arkansas death toll to 16 early Monday -- 10 in Faulkner County, five in Pulaski County and one in White County.
• At a news conference in the Philippines, President Barack Obama sent his condolences to those affected by the tornado and promised that the federal government would help in the recovery.
• "Your country will be there to help you recover and rebuild as long as it takes," Obama said.
• Storm ratings for Sunday's twisters were not immediately available. Before Sunday, the country had not had a tornado rated EF3 or higher since Nov. 17, streak of 160 days, the fourth-longest on record. This also would be the latest date for a storm rated EF3 or higher. The previous latest big storm for a year was March 31, 2002.
• Sunday was the third anniversary of a 122-tornado day, which struck parts of Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia and killed 316 people.
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AP News in Brief
Huge tornado kills 16 in Arkansas on day of violent weather; other twister kills 1 in Oklahoma
• VILONIA, Ark. (AP) -- Three years after a tornado devastated the Little Rock suburb of Vilonia, its residents found themselves huddling in the dark early Monday wondering how they would rebuild again after the most powerful tornado yet this year carved a path through their city and others nearby, killing at least 16 people.
• The tornado touched down Sunday about 10 miles west of Little Rock at around 7 p.m., then carved an 80-mile path of destruction as it passed through or near several suburbs north of the state capital, including Vilonia. It grew to be a half-mile wide and remained on the ground for much of that route, authorities said.
• Among the ruins was a new $14 million intermediate school that was set to open (Continued on page 19)
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