Crews were able to restore 80% of the power by Sunday morning, the power company said. Evergy said the storms caused more than 25,000 outages in its service area with Manhattan and Marysville being the areas with the most outages. In Marysville, north of Manhattan, police chief Matt Simpson, said that while there was damage in the city’s downtown area from the storms, no injuries were reported. Downed power lines and large tree limbs were the most reported damage. Three single-family homes in the neighborhood also were severely damaged. Both were unoccupied at the time of the storm Saturday evening. The buildings included the Chi Omega house and the Kappa Alpha Theta house. Authorities declared five buildings condemned and unsafe to occupy in the McCain neighborhood, just east of the K-State campus. The preliminary storm damage assessment for the county is estimated at more than $9.7 million. (The Wichita Eagle) - The Wichita Eagle reports that two sorority houses at Kansas State University were among the 41 residential and business properties in Riley County damaged by severe storms over the weekend. Two Sorority Houses Among Manhattan Buildings Damaged by Saturday Storms No serious injuries were reported from any of the storms.
The weather service said four EF1 tornadoes touched down in Marshall and Pottawatomie counties on Saturday night. Riley County officials said preliminary assessments found 41 residential and business properties were damaged, with 20 properties sustaining major damage and three homes destroyed. The weather service office in Topeka said winds exceeding 100 mph around and in Manhattan Saturday night did not have the rotation to be classified as a tornado. (AP) - The National Weather Service says straight line winds, not a tornado, caused nearly $10 million in damage in Riley County over the weekend. Strong Winds Did About $10 Million in Damage in Riley County The tornado generated peak wind speeds of 99 mph and had a maximum width of 30 yards. The twister rose back into the sky at 7:15 pm, near Spillway State Park at the southeast edge of Tuttle Creek Lake. The tornado generated peak wind speeds of 90 mph and had a maximum width of 150 yards.Īn EF-1 tornado touched down at 7:02 pm, three miles east of Olsburg in western Pottawatomie County, and stayed on the ground going south for 11 miles and 13 minutes.
The twister rose back into the sky at 5:53 pm, three miles west/northwest of Oketo in Marshall County. An EF-1 tornado touched down at 5:40 pm in southeast Nebraska, seven miles south/southwest of Wymore, Nebraska, and stayed on the ground going northeast for 4.1 miles and 13 minutes. The tornado generated peak wind speeds of 90 mph and had a maximum width of 50 yards. The twister rose back into the sky at 6:31 pm, one mile north of Blue Rapids. Train cars were derailed and trees and power poles damaged by an EF-1 tornado that touched down at 6:26 pm, three miles north/northeast of Blue Rapids in Marshall County, and stayed on the ground for 1.6 miles and five minutes. The tornado generated peak winds of 90 mph and had a maximum width of 50 yards. That twister rose back into the air at 6:06 pm, three miles east/northeast of Marysville.
The tornadoes came on a night when severe storms moved south from southeast Nebraska into northeast Kansas.Īccording to the National Weather Service, trees, power poles and a barn were damaged by an EF-1 tornado that touched down at 5:53 pm three miles south of Oketo in Marshall County, and stayed on the ground for 4.5 miles and 13 minutes. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that the twisters derailed train cars and damaged trees, power poles and a barn. (Topeka Capital-Journal) - Four small tornadoes moved late Saturday through parts of Pottawatomie and Marshall counties in northeast Kansas, the National Weather Service said. Wichita plans to use about $78,000 of its federal COVID-relief funds on the new threat assessment software.įour EF-1 Tornadoes Struck Northeast Kansas Saturday “If you have a second-grader that says, ‘I’m going to do something,’ … Did they hear it on TV, especially after you’ve had an incident like we had?,” she said. She says a team of psychologists, counselors and social workers goes into action any time a threat is made. Terri Moses is director of safety services for Wichita schools. Next school year, officials will have new software designed to better track those cases if students move from one school to another. This might involve aggressive or violent outbursts, self-harm or other troubling behavior. Wichita schools already have a process in place to identify students who present a potential threat to themselves or others. (KMUW/KNS) - Weeks after a deadly school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, a Kansas school district is ramping up its system for tracking threats. Kansas School District Ramps Up System for Tracking Threats
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