Watch: Violent tornado carves path of destruction through western Kansas town

GRINNELL, Kan. – A terrifying country unfolded successful occidental Kansas arsenic a almighty tornado ripped done a tiny town, leaving down wide damage.

The National Weather Service issued a Tornado Warning astir 7 p.m. Sunday for Grinnell successful Gove County.

Footage from tempest chaser Clinton H. Hendricks IV shows a funnel unreality bearing down connected the municipality with a colonisation of conscionable implicit 300 residents. As the tornado spins crossed the landscape, it lofts clouds of ungraded and debris into the air. Several buildings were severely damaged, including a religion and a school. There's nary contiguous connection of immoderate injuries oregon deaths.

EXTENSIVE DAMAGE REPORTED AFTER NIGHTTIME KANSAS TORNADOES, TRAIN DERAILMENT AMID RARE TORNADO EMERGENCY

A tornado ripped done Grinnell, Kansas, connected Sunday evening.

(Clinton H Hendricks IV via Storyful)

The Kansas Highway Patrol and section instrumentality enforcement person closed disconnected the municipality with a strict curfew. A adjacent information of Interstate 70 was besides closed owed to downed powerfulness lines.

Midwest Energy said the tornado caused important harm to the town's electrical and state systems. The inferior institution identified 15 downed poles and harm successful Grinnell metropolis limits, and further harm is likely. 

Kansas' existent U.S. Senators Jerry Moran and Roger Marshall expressed their interest pursuing the storm.

"Kansans, delight enactment alert," Moran said. "The unsafe upwind conditions crossed the authorities person already resulted successful tornadoes successful Gove County and Scott County, with overmuch of the authorities facing much storms and imaginable tornadoes."

CENTRAL US ON HIGH ALERT MONDAY FOR DANGEROUS TORNADOES, GIANT HAIL AND DESTRUCTIVE WINDS

Marshall said helium and his woman were praying for the Kansas communities impacted by Sunday's tornadoes.

"My bureau is successful interaction with section authorities to intimately show the damage, and we basal acceptable to assistance nevertheless we can," helium said connected Facebook connected Monday morning. "With much severe weather expected successful cardinal and eastbound Kansas today, delight enactment alert and travel guidance from section officials. Stay safe."

Representatives from the NWS bureau successful Goodland, Kansas, are surveying the harm successful Grinnell and whitethorn supply an EF rating arsenic soon arsenic Monday.