Twister damages up to 25 homes in rural Kansas

A large tornado churned through rural central Kansas for more than 90 minutes Wednesday night, damaging or destroying as many as 25 homes, according to the Kansas Highway Patrol. There were no reports of deaths or injuries.

Most of the damage occurred in rural Dickinson County, narrowly missing Chapman, a town of around 1,300 people located 75 miles west of Topeka.

"As the storm approached Chapman, it turned slightly south and  missed the city .... taking a path just south of town," Trooper Ben Gardner said on Twitter. He said the tornado, which at one point was a half mile wide, damaged as many as 25 homes, some substantially.

Troopers went house to house checking on residents, but did not report any injuries or fatalities. The tornado, which the National Weather Service warned could be "catastrophic," spun on the ground for more than 90 minutes, The Kansas City Star reports.

The destructive storm followed severe weather that swept through the Great Plains a day earlier.

Weather service meteorologist Andrew White in Dodge City said multiple tornadoes struck Ford and Hodgeman counties during a two-hour span Tuesday night, including an EF-2 twister that caused damage in western Ford County.

Preliminary reports indicate at least one of those tornadoes was a half mile wide, the Associated Press reports.