Then the tornado hit. "My ears popped real loud, and everything went sideways there," Toburen said. "It blew the door in on me, knocked me over on top of the wife, and then all of a sudden,

"It looked like an umbilical cord." "It was really long, and it didn't touch down for a long time, and finally we saw it touch down," she said. Campbell said the homes damaged in Westmoreland included that of her mother-in-law, Linda Campbell.

A tornado reportedly hit the northeast Kansas town of Westmoreland at around 4:40 p.m. Tuesday, killing 1 person and damaging multiple structures.

One person was killed and three people were injured when a tornado hit the northeastern Kansas town of Westmoreland on Tuesday afternoon, according to a Pottawatomie County spokesperson.

One person died Tuesday when a tornado ripped through the small city of Westmoreland in northeastern Kansas, destroying houses, RVs and outbuildings, authorities said. Pottawatomie County officials said on Facebook that a tornado struck the city of about 700 people Tuesday evening,