Kansas hit by a violent tornado

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14 tornadoes touched down in Kansas in the past 24 hours on Saturday April 30. One of them devastated part of the township of Andover. The wind column blew up to 400 km/h.

It only took a few minutes for the tornado appears on a road in Kansas. An impressive whirlwind of strong winds of up to 400km/h fell directly from a huge gray cloud. The column of air is immense and measures several hundred meters. The tornado destroyed everything in its path. Houses were blown up in seconds. The winds moved quickly, destroying everything in their path.

It was 8:10 p.m. when residents of the town of Andover received the first alert. Fifteen minutes later, the tornado was already hitting the city. Some barely had time to take shelter. “I saw the cone start to form and I said to my wife ‘I think there is going to be a tornado’, it went very quickly. We grabbed our dogs right away and we are went into the cellar. Barely thirty seconds later, the alarm sounded”, relates Kendrick Clay, a resident of Andover. The damage is numerous, cars thrown into the air, crashed into buildings. No deaths are to be deplored.


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