(CNN) -- Tornadoes tore across the nation's midsection for a second night Saturday, 24 hours after a storm leveled Greensburg, Kansas.
A tornado struck Sweetwater, Oklahoma, about 8:15 p.m. Saturday, causing major damage to a high school and other buildings.
"The tornado came through and just dead-center punched Sweetwater," Roger Mills County Sheriff Joe Hay told KOCO-TV in Oklahoma City. He said there was extensive damage but just one minor injury in the small town.
Video of the high school in Sweetwater showed a collapsed wall of the gymnasium. An all purpose building at the school was severely damaged.
The storm continued to grind north through northwestern Oklahoma toward Kansas for more than 45 minutes.
More than 75 tornado touchdowns were reported on Saturday -- 40 of them between 6 and 9 p.m., the National Weather Service's Storm Prediction Center said.
KOCO's Matt Leinbauer reported seeing damage from another confirmed tornado just east of Arnett, Oklahoma.
A massive tornado killed at least nine people in southwestern Kansas on Friday night and destroyed nearly everything in its path.
Rescue crews pulled some people alive from the rubble, and more are expected to be found in upcoming days, Greensburg City Administrator Steve Hewitt said. (Watch Hewitt tour devastation that includes his own home 
)
The Red Cross said about 90 percent of Greensburg, home to about 1,500, was destroyed or heavily damaged.
"My town is gone," Hewitt said after surveying the wreckage earlier Saturday.
Eight of the deaths were in Kiowa County, where Greensburg is located, and one was in Stafford County, to the northeast, Watson said.
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