Twenty-five people were injured and dozens of homes and businesses were destroyed by a tornado in Baxter Springs around 6pm on Sunday.
Southeast Kansas Incident Management Team spokeswoman Kari West says one person died, but it was not clear whether the death was related to the storm.
Cherokee County emergency manager Jason Allison says the tornado was roughly two- to three-blocks wide, and cut diagonally through the southeastern town of about 42 hundred people.
Allison says 60 to 70 homes were destroyed, as well as 20 to 25 businesses.
Gov. Sam Brownback has declared a state of disaster emergency for Baxter Springs.
The tornado was one of several in the Midwest last night.
