Social media footage of the twister showed a fast\u002Dmoving, violent tempest shredding across Andover like a buzz saw
A major tornado developed just before sunset in the eastern Wichita suburbs before entering the city of Andover, where about 50 to 100 homes and businesses were damaged or destroyed. Local ABC affiliate KAKE reported several injuries from the twister. The Andover fire chief reported no deaths.Social media footage of the twister showed a fast-moving, violent tempest shredding across Andover like a buzz saw.
“The Andover YMCA suffered significant damage as a result of the storm that hit the Andover area this evening,” the YMCA in Wichita wrote on its Facebook page. “We are thankful that all of the staff and members that took shelter at the branch at the time of the storm, were not injured.”The Andover tornado was among 14 reports of twisters in the Plains received by the National Weather Service on Friday evening, 11 of them from Kansas and three from Nebraska.
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