CASTALIAN SPRINGS, Tenn. -- From the tragedy of Tuesday's tornadoes, the symbol of hope took on a human face on Thursday.

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Channel 4 met the 11-month-old baby, Kyson, who survived the storms after being thrown 400 feet from his home in Castalian Springs.

The child will grow up without a mother, but the fact that he survived is being described as incredible.

"Just a miracle. Luck. God watching over him. That's all it can be," said the child's grandfather, Doug Stowell.

Kyson is scratched up, but he'll live to tell his own children someday that he survived being thrown 400 feet by a tornado.

He was tossed from a house that is now a pile of rubble near the post office in Castalian Springs.

For two hours, the baby lay alone in a muddy field until Maggie the rescue dog led first responders Melissa Riley and David Harmon into a field.

"He had his arms above his head and wasn’t moving," said Harmon.

"They told me it was the last sweep. They were fixing to stop searching," said Stowell.

Firefighter David Harmon spotted Kyson among someone's battered collection of dolls and realized the child wasn’t a toy.

"I took a second look and said, ‘No, it's actually a baby,’" said Harmon.

"He looked good. You couldn't even tell he was scraped up. He had a lot of mud on him and grass in his hair, but he was alert. He wasn't crying," said Stowell.

Stowell’s daughter Kerri Beth, the baby's mother, was killed on Tuesday night.

"She was our only child," said Stowell.

Kerri Beth had tried to call her parents just as the storm hit.

"I think she had called her mother and left a voice mail. All we could hear was wind," said Stowell.

The baby's father, Corey, wanted to thank the rescue workers who found his son, who is only nine days away from his first birthday.

Stowell said he didn't really care to be on television but he thinks the media attention will help the child's future. A trust fund has been set up at for the little boy. Those who would like to donate can do so at any branch of Sun Trust bank and mention the Kyson Miles Stowell Fund or call 615-340-0249.

The boy's grandfather said he has no plans to go on other talk shows and is asking for some privacy now for the family.