Minnesota teen offers help to Oaklawn residents
Fourteen-year-old Raven Caldwell spent her Friday night driving 600 miles to Wichita from Minnesota with her mother and sister.
Fourteen-year-old Raven Caldwell spent her Friday night driving 600 miles to Wichita from Minnesota with her mother and sister.
The first thing some residents had to do when they returned to the tornado-ravaged Pinaire Mobile Home Park in Oaklawn was figure out which pile of rubble was theirs.
Victor Bowen got a phone call at midnight to open the American Red Cross’ first shelter following Saturday night’s tornadoes in the Wichita area.
Spirit AeroSystems estimates its insurance claim from an EF-3 tornado that tore through its Wichita plant April 14 at about $400 million.
Teachers and staff from Oaklawn Elementary showed up Wednesday to help not with rakes and crow bars but with hugs and encouraging words.
Gawkers continue to plague recovery efforts in Oaklawn, days after a mile-wide tornado hit the Wichita area.
For some in Oaklawn, moving on means just that move! For others, it means staying put.
A large tornado bore down on Wichita’s Mid-Continent Airport long after sunset Saturday night, taking a path that would bring it right through downtown — where country music star Miranda Lambert was performing at Intrust Bank Arena.
As tornadoes brewed in the Wichita region late Saturday, National Weather Service meteorologist Andy Kleinsasser issued a new kind of bulletin that detailed just how bad things could get.
Cate Eighmey photographed newlyweds next to a wheat field with tornadoes touching down behind them Saturday night in Harper County.
Jim Skelton wants to help people who live in Oaklawn — but he’s not so sure he wants to help landlords who rent to people who live in Oaklawn.
Cindy Wood doesn’t dare think too far ahead.
After a Saturday night tornado tore through its complex, shutting down operations and heavily damaging buildings, Spirit AeroSystems said Monday it could begin making some shipments later this week.
Tornadoes can do the strangest things.
The National Weather Service has released a map of the path taken by the EF3 tornado that struck the Wichita metropolitan area Saturday night.
Conditions are ideal for a major tornado outbreak in Kansas and Oklahoma this afternoon and evening, weather officials say, and the Wichita area appears to be particularly vulnerable.
A tangle of twisted trees, some torn out of the ground last month by a tornado, cover a creek that runs behind Deer Lake Estates in Oaklawn.
County and city administrators provided everything from large trash containers to substantial new disposal plans for residents cleaning up their property after Saturday’s tornado.
Tornadoes pick economic winners and losers as they churn through communities.
Editor’s note: This story has been updated and clarified from the original version.