Janet Clark stands in front of her home on Sunday, March 4, where she rode out Friday's EF4 tornado in Henryville, Indiana.
(CNN) -- No one knew how the little girl ended up alone, in the Indiana field. Nor did they know who the toddler with blond hair and blue eyes was.
They did know that she needed help.
So the rush was on Friday to help the girl after she was found in Salem after devastating tornadoes struck the area, Clark County Sheriff's Department Maj. Chuck Adams said.
Adams said the 20-month-old was intubated, with a tube inserted into her throat to help her breathe.
She was taken first to Indiana's St. Vincent Salem Hospital before being flown about 35 miles southeast to Kosair Children's Hospital in Louisville, Kentucky, according to Brian Rublein, a spokesman for Kosair.
"She is in critical condition," Rublein said Saturday night.
Rublein and Adams said that, since the girl was first located, someone had called to identify her. The hospital spokesman added Saturday that extended family members were then with the child.
But her entire immediate family -- her parents, as well as 3-year-old brother and 2-month-old sister -- were killed in the storm, according to Rublein.
Those wishing to help can do so through the hospital's website, www.kosairchildrens.com, by specifying they want their donation to be directed to the girl who lost her family in the storm.
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As uncertain as this toddler's fate was, the situation was likewise tenuous for a 9-year-old boy from Henryville, about 20 miles east of Salem.
Adams said that the boy's whereabouts have been unknown since twisters ravaged his Indiana town, destroying its high school, knocking down trees and tearing roofs off buildings.
With lights knocked out throughout the region due to the potent storm, authorities were using thermal imaging and search dogs in an attempt to locate the boy, according to Adams.
As of Saturday evening, authorities were reporting that at least 37 people had died as a result of the severe weather, including 18 in Kentucky and 14 in Indiana.
CNN's Sara Pratley and Greg Botelho contributed to this report.
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Debris from the violent tornado remains scattered around a Henryville home on Sunday.
Troy Lewis cuts up a tree on Sunday that fell when a tornado passed through Marysville, Indiana.
Harrisburg, Illinois, residents face the daunting challenge of cleaning up after the prowerful storms.
Leah Boylan looks at the damage to her sister's home on Saturday, March 3, after it was destroyed by a tornado in Henryville, Indiana. Dozens of people were killed as severe weather and tornadoes ripped through the South and Midwest on Friday, March 2.
Melody Zollman, left, gets a hug from her sister Michelle Browning as they stand among the remains of Zollman's home in Henryville after it was destroyed by a tornado on Friday.
Zollman hugs her cat Thumbelina after it was pulled from the debris of her home.
Sarah Kutz helps her sister rescue possessions from her home, which was destroyed in the tornado that hit Henryville.
A school bus is lodged in a home in Henryville where it came to rest after being tossed by Friday's tornado.
Cupcakes, baked for a 12-year-old's birthday party, remain on the counter where they were left to cool moments before Friday's tornado destroyed the home.
iReporter Kevin Welz captured this image of the Henryville tornado as it touched down on Friday night.
Steve Smith and J. J. Smith survey the damage to their home following the tornado that struck Henryville.
A family portrait sits among the debris of a Henryville home.
A car and school bus are overturned in the parking lot of a Henryville school.
An overnight storm shredded the roof of a business in Paulding County, Georgia.
High winds during an overnight storm system tore apart a Paulding County home.
A tornado touched down in Madison County, Alabama, on Friday, causing widespread damage. The powerful storm system is moving across the United States, causing tornadoes from Alabama to Indiana and threatening more destruction. In Indiana, at least five deaths were reported.
A tornado in Ooltewah,Tennessee, left this home destroyed on Friday.
Debris is strewn as far as the eye can see in Ooltewah.
Meridianville, Alabama, was hit hard by Friday's storm system.
Tornado-force winds sheered this telephone pole in Madison County, Alabama.
Behind this once welcoming exterior in Madison County lies the ruins of a home struck by Friday's storm.
iRepoterer Blair Scott took this photo of damaged cars at Buckhorn High School in Hunstville, Alabama, after the school was hit by one of Friday's tornadoes.
Keith Huke, right, remained in the bed to his left, escaping with no injuries from the tornado that tore apart his home in Harrisburg, Illinois.
Utility workers try to restore electricity to a tornado-damaged section of Harrisburg on Friday.
Dale Barnfield, left, and his niece Linda Mayberry wait for an insurance adjuster outside Barnfield's tornado-damaged home in Harrisburg.
Harrisburg residents continue to clean up after Thursday's tornado.
A Harrisburg neighborhood lies in ruins Thursday after a tornado tore through the town. A monster storm system killed six people in Harrisburg and left at least seven others dead in two other states.
A truck appears twisted like a toy Thursday in the storm's aftermath in Harrisburg. A tornado with winds up to 180 mph thrashed the southern Illinois town early Wednesday.
Angela Davis, an iReporter from Marion, Illinois, went to Harrisburg after the storm because she said she has friends and family there. "It was kind of surreal," Davis wrote of the destruction. "We saw silos picked up/thrown around, gas pipes from gas stations, a truck wrapped around the tree."
Up to 300 houses were damaged or destroyed in Harrisburg, authorities said. The tornado had a preliminary rating of EF4, the second most powerful on the rating scale, the National Weather Service said.
Steve McDonald inspects what's left of his mother-in-law's house in Harrisburg. His in-law, Mary Osman, was among four women and two men killed in the hard-hit town.
Josh Summers searches for his possessions after the tornado ripped through his Harrisburg neighborhood. The twister appeared to have been on the ground for several miles, a city official said.
The powerful storm leaves cars tossed about among collapsed houses and other debris Wednesday in Harrisburg.
Downed trees crush a truck Wednesday after a tornado hit in Harveyville, Kansas. A state of emergency was declared in the town about 20 miles southwest of Topeka.
Douglas Osman sifts through the wreckage of his grandmother's house Wednesday in Harrisburg. His grandmother, Mary Osman, was one of six people killed in the Illinois town.
Carolyn Osman surveys the wreckage of the tornado that took her mother-in-law's life in Harrisburg, where some 100 people were also injured.
Levi Fogle helps girlfriend Sarah Pearce leave a damaged house in Harrisburg. Fogle, Pearce and her three daughters went unharmed in the storm.
John Bonenberger checks out damage to a Harrisburg strip mall where his business was located.
A house in Harrisburg lies in ruins in the tornado's aftermath.
An old family photo survives the destruction in Buffalo, Missouri.
The storm leaves a car battered in the music resort town of Branson, Missouri, in a photo from iReporter Danny Gassaway.
A tornado razed this house and above-ground swimming pool in Stoddard County.
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