An 11-month-old baby miraculously survived after a tornado destroyed his home and threw him a hundred yards away. The baby was found two hours after the storm had ended, in a muddy field and surrounded by debris left by the tornado. He was only wearing a T-shirt and his diaper when he was found, and luckily survived with only minor injuries.

A happy coincidence drew rescue worker David Harmon to the place where the baby was found, in the darkness of an early Wednesday morning. According to Harmon, 11-month-old Kyson Stowell was lying face down in the mud motionless, and at a first glimpse, the rescuers confused him with a doll. But than the baby started moving and that’s when they realized it was a real infant there that had miraculously survived the tornado.

Firefighters David Harmon and Carl Wagner from Wilson County came into Summer County to help with the rescue efforts, but they would have never expected to find such a small baby safe and sound after being tossed 100 yards away from his home. “It looked like a baby doll. I was getting ready to tell my partner that I’d found a baby doll, but before I could get the words out of my mouth, the baby moved its body,” 31-year-old Harmon said.

Unfortunately for the family and little Kyson, his mother, 24-year-old Kerri Stowell, was found dead on Tuesday night, in the same field where the baby was found. A total of 59 people were killed after nature unleashed its fury on the states of Tennessee, Kentucky, Mississippi, Alabama and Arkansas, in an unprecedented deadly twister, the strongest in the last two decades. Two days after the storm, emergency and rescue teams are still in the area, trying to offer a helping-hand to the communities shattered by the tornadoes.