A four-month-old boy who was sucked from his Tennessee home by a tornado has miraculously been found alive.
The baby, named Lord, and his family were in their mobile home in Clarksville on Saturday, when a powerful twister ripped the roof off the building and sucked him out in his cot.
His mother, Sydney Moore, told how the baby's father had desperately tried to grab the cot, but was also spun up into the twister.
"He was just holding on to the bassinet the whole time, and they went into circles, he said, and then they got thrown," Ms Moore told WSMV-TV.
Ms Moore used her body to shield the couple's other son, a one-year-old named Princeton, while the walls of the mobile home collapsed.
She said she and the infant were crushed under the trailer, but she managed to push them both free.
Fearing the worst, Ms Moore and her partner began frantically searching for four-month-old Lord.
The search ended after 10 minutes, when he was found lying in a fallen tree in the pouring rain.
"I was pretty sure he was dead and we weren't going to find him," Ms Moore said.
"But he's here, and that's by the grace of God."
All the family members survived with cuts and bruises, but their home was demolished and belongings destroyed in the storm.
Ms Moore's sister, Caitlyn Moore, has started a GoFundMe page to help them recover.
She said on the page that Lord "had to have his ear glued from a cut".
"We are told that he looked like he was placed on the tree gently," she wrote. "Like an angel guided him safely to that spot."
Three people were killed in Clarksville and three in Nashville by the string of powerful tornado-producing storms on Saturday.
