At least 5 tornadoes were reported Tuesday as severe storms moved across the plains of northeast Colorado.
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A wedge tornado stretching a half-mile wide touched down in northeast Saline Co.
Gov. Sam Brownback visited the area Thursday and took an aerial view at the impact of the tornado that spanned roughly a quarter of a mile.
Matt Cox, of Dodge City, Kansas, captured a picture of the sky after dual tornadoes hit the area on Tuesday May 24th.
Brad Guay, a meteorologist, took unbelievable photos in Kansas of the multiple tornadoes on Tuesday May 24th.
On Thursday, the stormy weather left about 50 students stuck at a Texas elementary school after 12 to 15 inches of rain fell. There have been no serious injuries and no deaths from all the tornadoes, he said.
Several people in Ford County, Kansas, reportedly were hurt in Tuesday’s storms, said Andrew White, a spokesman for the National Weather Service.
The National Weather Service began issuing tornado warnings early Thursday afternoon, with the first sighting of a tornado near the tiny northeast Kansas town of St. George in Riley County about 2 p.m.
Some of those storms have the possibility to become strong to severe, primarily between 3 p.m. Thursday and 6 a.m. Friday.
At the same time, several southwestern Kansas counties were under tornado warnings, but no twisters had touched down.
Forecasters say Kansas will see more bad weather as communities clean up from storms that included a tornado on the ground for about 90 minutes. The highest estimated winds were near 160 miles per hour.
Emergency managers are coordinating volunteers to assist in the cleanup after a slow-moving tornado hit rural northern Kansas, damaging about 20 homes.
He says residents had plenty of warning ahead of the storm, which likely attributed to the lack of injuries.
The National Weather Service confirmed a tornado hit southeast of St. George, Kansas, around 2:05 p.m. local time (3:05 p.m. EST) moving Northeast at 30 miles per hour. Omitt added that “the heart” of the tornado at one point was just about a mile south of Chapman, a town that was devastated by a deadly tornado way back in 2008. He says a large propane tank also tipped over.
Meteorologists with the National Weather Service inspect the destruction Thursday morning, May 25, 2016, of a rural home north of Abilene, Kan. The tornado stayed on the ground for 90 minutes and 25 miles.
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Emergency crews were still assessing damage in Dickinson County and making sure everyone was OK early Thursday.
