About 20 homes were damaged in a rural area of northern Kansas after a tornado passed through but there were no immediate reports of injuries, the Kansas Highway Patrol said.

    Troopers were checking a rural area in Dickinson County where it was believed 20 homes were damaged, some significantly. The National Weather Service had warned people to take cover as what it called a "catastrophic" tornado approached Chapman, about 75 miles west of Topeka. 

The tornado was part of a series of storms that also pounded the Plains with rain and hail in central Oklahoma and northeastern Arkansas.

Source : QNA