The National Weather Service is providing damage reports from early-morning tornadoes yesterday in the Flint Hills.

 

Around 4 a.m. yesterday, one of the storms moving through the area started to show low level rotation as it moved into southern Greenwood county and shortly after produced an EF-1 tornado southeast of Eureka.

 

A few hours later, a line storms along the cold front moved into the Flint Hills with a brief but strong tornado occurring south of Virgil. This tornado was rated an EF-2 with damage including steel purlins being bent along with a large outbuilding ripped from its foundation. No injuries or fatalities were reported.

 

Photo: Damage near Virgil, KS. Photo courtesy Wichita NWS