ST. LOUIS — Missouri's governor planned to tour damaged areas today as residents in parts of the Midwest clean up from powerful storms that splintered homes, knocked out power to thousands and killed five people.

Hundreds of homes and businesses were damaged or destroyed Friday in Kansas, Kentucky, Illinois and Missouri and 150,000 Missouri utility customers lost power. Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon declared a state of emergency.

Two people were killed near Poplar Bluff, Mo., when wind knocked a tree onto their sport utility vehicle. In Dallas County, a man in his 70s had a fatal heart attack after he and his wife were sucked from their home by a tornado and thrown into a field, said county emergency management director Larry Highfill. The wife was hospitalized in fair condition.

A 54-year-old woman was killed in southeast Kansas in a mobile home that was blown off its foundation. And in central Kentucky, officials blamed a possible tornado for the death of a woman whose body was found in a pond.

Today, a line of strong thunderstorms stretched from Arkansas and northern Mississippi across Tennessee and Kentucky.

Wind in southeast Kansas area reached 120 mph, destroying the New Albany United Methodist Church and the town's post office.

The National Weather Service said it received multiple reports of tornadoes from one end of Missouri to the other.