The damage assessment included an aerial view of the scene north of Abilene where most of the destruction was reported.
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Wild weather continued to pummel the middle of the United States Thursday evening, with tornadoes reported in Kansas and Texas and at least 19 people trapped by flooding in a Kentucky cave. The last tornado lifted just south of Garden City a little after 9 p.m.
Severe weather spawning numerous tornadoes roiled large stretches of Kansas for a second day Thursday, prompting residents to anxiously watch the skies but causing only scattered damage in rural areas and no injuries or deaths.
This image made from a Tuesday, May 24, 2016 video by KWTV-KOTV, shows a funnel cloud moving across the field near Dodge City in Ford County, Kan. No one was injured and all inmates and staff were accounted for, the news station said.
David Enarson was traveling home to Chicago storms hit. He said people were calm and they were in the tunnels about 35 to 40 minutes. “People in garage tunnels”.
A short time later another EF-1 tornado touched down near the Washington County and Yuma County line, destroying a barn by the intersection of County Road 46 and County Road AAA.
In another disruption, Denver International Airport had a ground stop on flights after a thunderstorm.
Stairs lead to the entrance of Hidden River Cave in Horse Cave, Ky.
In Kansas’ Dickinson County, a tornado Wednesday was blamed for destroying eight homes and heavily damaging as many as 20 others and farmsteads.
There were preliminary reports of a tornado in Bryan, Texas, Thursday afternoon that damaged multiple homes, according to the Weather Channel.
Officials say the half-mile-wide tornado carved a path about 26 miles long and was on the ground for 90 minutes.
But the weather may not let up for the county, as more storms have been predicted into Saturday.
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. That was one of 12 twisters that occurred, he said.
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The National Weather Service in Louisville issued a flood advisory for parts of Hart County, Kentucky, and said Horse Cave would experience flooding.
