- A strong tornado hit the city of Andover in eastern Kansas on Friday night.
- Several tornadoes, destructive gusts of wind and hail as big as softballs broke the Central Plains.
- Andover was also hit by an F5 tornado a little over 30 years ago.
The tornado fell near Andover, Kansas, a city about 10 miles east of Wichita, Kansas, shortly after 8 p.m.
The video shows that the twister cut through or near a residential community in the eastern suburbs of Wichita when sirens sounded.
Numerous cars were towed to the ground and pushed to the Andover YMCA, where major damage was reported. There were no injuries in the tornado, as employees and members took refuge, according to the YREA of Greater Wichita.
The tornado approached from the southwest, where the neighborhood is located. More than a dozen homes have been destroyed in the area, according to the Wichita Eagle. A Wichita Eagle reporter reported damage to the roofs of many homes nearby.
Local police said many major intersections were blocked due to debris and damaged power lines. Sedgwick County has declared a state of emergency to help ease state aid, according to KAKE.com.
Oral state of emergency in Sedgwick County. Emergency Operations Center and Local Emergency Plan. This declaration will help facilitate state aid.
Several storm chasers followed the tornado as it moved northeast of the city when radar confirmed the tornado.
In some thunderstorms that followed the tornado, Andover also received a hailstorm the size of a golf ball at 9:30 p.m. local time.
Unfortunately, Andover is no stranger to strong tornadoes.
Andover was hit by an F5 tornado in April 1991. The tornado killed 13 people in a mobile home park plus four more and caused $ 300 million in damage. In addition, more than 200 people were injured.
Several other tornadoes also landed in Nebraska and Kansas as a major storm moved east of the central Rockies to the Midwest.
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