I infer that the fatalities were in the group already in shelter, not the group in the woods. Had they had extra warning - and I've seen no reports of that there was an earlier radio warning - they wouldn't have gone anywhere else.

Thomas White, a scout supervisor, said he dug through the wreckage of a collapsed fireplace to reach victims in a building where many scouts were seeking shelter when the twister struck at 6:35 p.m.

"A bunch of us got together and started undoing the rubble from the fireplace and stuff and waiting for the first responders," White told KMTV in Omaha, Neb. "They were under the tables and stuff and on their knees, but they had no chance."