Thunderstorms producing large hail and damaging winds along are possible again along the Front Range and northeastern Colorado.
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No fatalities or serious injuries were reported.
People in Washington and Yuma counties are still cleaning up from Tuesday’s storms, which produced about a half dozen tornadoes.
As many as six buildings were damaged in Bristow, Oklahoma after high winds and grapefruit-sized hail swept through the Creek Country city which has a population of 4,200.
And parts of Jefferson County, Kansas, saw baseball sized hail Thursday from two storms, according to Dr. Greg Forbes, a severe weather expert at the Weather Channel.
There were times when rare dual tornadoes hit the county, which includes Dodge City.
Tornado warnings issued early Friday afternoon across the far Eastern Plains have expired as severe storms move through to Kansas.
The Kansas City International Airport “has been evacuated”, McBride said in the post.
Tornadoes have been touching down in the central states since Monday and the streak continued Thursday.
A Calgary storm chaser witnessed a large twister spare the majority of homes in its path in Kansas Wednesday night, tweeting some dramatic photos and footage.
There were no reports of injuries or deaths in the latest round of severe weather.
White said the forecast shows an enhanced risk of strong storms on Thursday, but nothing like the ones that broke out Tuesday.
The National Weather Service says 3 to 6 inches of rain fell in parts of Oklahoma, and a flood warning is in effect through Wednesday afternoon.
“A warning for your county is an urgent message that storms have developed”, Bunting says.
Meteorologists with the National Weather Service inspect the destruction Thursday morning, May 25, 2016, of a rural home north of Abilene, Kan. In addition to cleaning up the damaged homes, crews will also have to remove scores of trees blocking rural roadways.
The NWS in Topeka said in a post on Twitter that the Pottawatomie County Emergency Management Office had also confirmed a tornado on the ground almost ten miles away between Wamego and Louisville in Kansas.
Troopers checked a rural area in Dickinson County, the place where 20 homes damaged, and they checked each home to make sure everyone was safe, according to Trooper Ben Gardner, a spokesman for the patrol.
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Judge Paul Pape said more than 100 homes flooded in Bastrop County, forcing at least 50 families into shelters.
