Tornado Damages Over 200 Homes

CNN reports

About 200 homes are damaged and at least 20 are destroyed after a report of a tornado in Kansas late Saturday.

"The hardest hit area in the northeastern part of the state is in Reading, Kansas, in Lyon County," said Sharon Watson, spokeswoman for the Kansas Division of Emergency Management.

Watson said the agency received a report of a tornado touching down at 9:15 p.m. CT.

"We had reports of a few injuries but no report of fatalities," Watson said.

The National Weather Service did not immediately confirm whether a tornado struck.

Severe storms hit northeastern Kansas from about 6 p.m. until midnight.

"The first significant calls of damage came in about 6:30 p.m. local in Shawnee County," Watson said. "There was significant damage caused by large hail, which broke windows and broke tree limbs."

In Jefferson County, a mobile home was destroyed and an elderly couple was trapped inside, Watson said. She said first responders cleared the debris and rescued the couple, who was not hurt.