Dozens of tornadoes tore through the U.S. midsection as Kansas declared disaster emergency
More than 120 tornadoes pummel Kansas, Oklahoma, Nebraska and Indiana leaving at least 5 people dead in Woodward, NW Oklahoma, and forcing Kansas governor to declare a disaster emergency.
- Iowa. About 75 percent of the small town of Thurman (Fremont County) has been destroyed. The town has been evacuated with an emergency shelter in a nearby town. No power in the town, SPC reported.
- Oklahoma. Numerous reports of major structural damage on western and northern part of Woodward; at least 5 killed and many injured.
- Kansas. A tornado has caused widespread damage and power outages in Wichita, Kansas, but there were bno reports of deaths or injuries as of posting.
- Tornadoes have damaged or destroyed many homes, businesses, a jail, a hospital and an Air Force base aaround the region, reports said.
- Nebraska. Baseball-sized hail tore siding from houses and shattered windows in Petersburg, about 130 miles NW of Omaha.
- Sedgwick County, Kansas, declared a state of disaster and said the storm damage could top $280 million.
- Severe weather is expected to continue Sunday “from east Texas and Arkansas and up into the Great Lakes,” said Storm Prediction Center (SPC).
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