The storms were the latest in a busy severe weather week for the Great Plains. The tornado came to a halt near the Dickinson-Geary county line around 8:40 p.m. At some points during its track, the tornado was estimated to be half a mile wide.
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Earlier Thursday the weather service had rated the tornado as an EF3.
She says Chapman, Kansas got a bit of a break after being hit a few years ago. Damage was also reported to numerous barns and outbuildings. It was determined that one long-lasting supercell thunderstorm produced eight tornadoes. More than 5 inches of rain fell in about four hours Tuesday afternoon in Jonesboro.
There is the potential for severe thunderstorms in the afternoon.
A “low grade” tornado ripped through parts of Brazos County, Texas, about 12:30 p.m. Thursday. Tornadoes knocked down power poles in Adams County, while smaller hail piled up like snow in some parts of the Denver area.
The twister was on the ground for more than an hour Wednesday night. Two other people were critically injured after a tornado touched down near Dodge City, Kansas.
There were no deaths of injuries caused by the tornado. Additional storms are predicted to move across Kansas starting during the afternoon/evening hours of Thursday, May 27 into Saturday, May 29. Some storms could also form in northwestern Oklahoma. In Kansas, the chance jumps to 15 percent – including in Chapman, where Wednesday night’s storm struck. On Thursday, forecasters say tornadoes are possible in Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas. Luckily, there had been no reports of fatalities.
Dickinson Co. Emergency Management Director Chancy Smith described the scene as “chaos”. Chapman is about 140 miles west of Kansas City, Kansas.
He said crews have completed secondary searches of the damaged properties and residents are so far accounted for. The NWS in Tulsa said multiple homes suffered extensive damage near Shamrock, and the Bristow Police Department confirmed injuries in the area, KOTV reported.
Meteorologists with the National Weather Service inspect the destruction Thursday morning, May 25, 2016, of a rural home north of Abilene, Kan. The tornado, which the National Weather Service warned could be “catastrophic”, spun on the ground for more than 90 minutes, The Kansas City Star reports.
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But Gardner said it appears the storm traveled south of the town.
