Spirit AeroSystems and Boeing took a direct hit, officials said, as well as Oaklawn Park District and the mobile home.
Preliminary reports indicated that 100 trailers in a mobile home park were damaged when the storm struck shortly before 10:30 pm in Oaklawn, two houses were destroyed and several others were damaged. Two residents were taken to a hospital emergency room in the region, while many others were wounded, but did not go to the hospital.
In general, hospitals reported that they saw about a dozen patients in the storm in the metropolitan area, which also left thousands of customers without power.
Spirit AeroSystems nearby, six buildings were severely damaged and four others suffered serious damage.
A preliminary assessment by officials of the City and County estimated the total losses in the Wichita area to be like $ 283 million.
At 0:25, Sedgwick County Commission Chairman Tim Norton said the state of disaster, which will initiate the emergency plan and report to government officials that support and further assistance may be required. Governor Sam Brownback declared an emergency disaster.
Mobile home park Pinaire near 52nd Street South and Clifton was badly damaged, and in the middle of the complex fire, which was obviously caused by the rupture of gas burned.
Christine Dean, who lives in the park, said she was one of 75 to 100 people who took refuge in shelters in the park.
"All summer, and everyone was shouting," she said. "We all crowded."
She said the noise of the storm lasted from 15 to 20 seconds. When it was over, she said, some of the trailers were on fire and the other was not.
Power lines down, she said, and car windows were smashed. The smell of gas filled the air.
She said the park was "almost gone. This is devastating, but you know we are alive."
Cars have difficulty obtaining the park because of damage to trees and power lines in the region. Many respondents extraordinary profit on its feet.
Sedgwick County spokeswoman Kristi Zukovich said officials are still trying to assess the damage until midnight. She said officials are asking people to stay in the area bounded by the thirty-ninth and 63 Street to the south, and Hydraulic and K-15, so that rescuers can enter
Shortly after the storm - which swept through Oklahoma and Sumner County - residents of the park shouting the names of family members who are missing. Other people began to ask people to shut up so they could hear the voices of people who may be trapped under the rubble.
Many residents gathered at the entrance to the park.
Kristin Moyer, who lives in the park, said that it covers far from the park, as well as what she described as "a skinny tornado" hit.
Among those who gathered at 47th and Clifton after the storm was Pam Thurman Belle Plaine. She and other nurses, Tony Bowman, Wellington, led to a field hearing of the damage.
"We are nurses," said Thurman. "This is what you should do."
Mary Silver, who lives in Oaklawn, said she left the fire storm in the derby with 150 other people and lots of pets.
The Red Cross has sent four teams of disaster assessment and has opened a shelter in a recreation center derby at 3 pm on Sunday.
A spokesman for Boeing Forrest Gossett said that the company "took a direct hit." A skeleton crew was on duty, he said, but there were no immediate reports of injuries. The Company will not be able to assess the damage until the morning, he said, but it was huge.
Spirit AeroSystems, a part of the production side of the installation process has disappeared. The plant was without power and said six buildings were severely damaged and four were seriously damaged.
"It's important," said spokeswoman Debbie Gann's Spirit AeroSystems.
There were no immediate reports of damage. MacArthur debris lined the roads of the plant.
Spirit of the representative Jarrod Bartlett said later that the company should suspend its operations due to damage. The spirit of working regularly on a Sunday, should not go to work if they are directly contacted, he said.
"Our first priority is the safety and well-being of our employees," said Bartlett. "We can not fully assess the damage today."
To the northeast, Hawker Beechcraft reported damage to the roof, with pieces of land on Webb Road.
USD 259 officials also reported damage to the roof of a new elementary school Colvin.
In assessing the storm at 2 am, Wichita Fire Eagle Brad Crisp said that the damage was significant in the south of Wichita, south-east of Wichita and Sedgwick County south.
He said emergency crews are still dealing with gas leaks and hazardous materials in the Spirit.
The darkness and the storm continued, stretching out past 4 am, was to prevent damage assessment, Crisp said.
Fire Marshal has confirmed that people should stay away from damaged areas during the day Sunday to make way for emergency crews.
While Crisp said he had not heard reports of people that can be captured as a result of the storm was at least one report of a person reported missing on Sunday morning.
The storm, which struck a mobile home park is part of a powerful system that passed through Kansas, churning out dozens of tornadoes reported but not causing death or serious damage elsewhere in the state early in the morning.
The system spawned at least six tornadoes in rural western Kansas on Saturday afternoon, including the north of Dodge City, which has been on earth for about half an hour.
As a storm swept the state, large tornado went around the city of Salina, on Saturday night as another tornado 90 miles of the city threatens to Reno County Pretty Prairie.
In Butler County, emergency officials feel that they have avoided major disasters.
El Dorado County residents Butler said officials in the management of emergency situations, that a few large trees, some as much as one meter in diameter, fell to the south and west of the County Courthouse.
Storm damage in the small downtown Wichita, but caused flooding Main Street.
Heroes Sports Bar patrons not to evacuate when the tornado sirens sounded, even if the plan was in place were more severe weather conditions in their way. Early warning is kept most people from the city center on Saturday, with scattered crowds who inhabit the area after the Miranda Lambert concert and storms.
"We have a basement, which we could all those people when things got worse," manager Eric Heroes Davisson said. "The most we saw was a flood, and when the rain stopped, we checked for any damage to the front and rear and there was nothing there."
Kansas Division of Emergency Management has activated its Emergency Operations Center in Topeka to track storms and be prepared to provide the necessary assistance. But as dusk settled on the state, it appears that little help was needed.
Responsible for emergency management said initial reports indicate that the structural damage was limited to farm buildings and houses in Rush County.
Minor wind damage reported in Russell County, where the K-18 was closed near Luray and because the power lines on the road to Lucas. Minor flooding reported in areas with low levels throughout the state.
Concerns about early storms prompted McConnell Air Force Base air refueling tankers to move from 16 to Air Force Base Grand Forks Air North Dakota, spokeswoman Jessica Brown said that the database lieutenant.
Damage from the storm reported in McConnell and the Kansas Aviation Museum, including a B-47 display.
It was only the second time the storm forecast center issued a warning of high risk for more than 24 hours. The first was in April 2006 when a tornado tore off about 100 south-eastern United States and killed dozens of people and damaging more than 1,000 homes in Tennessee.
The storm system on Saturday has been widely distributed throughout the Midwest, but it did not give such damages. Baseball size hail reported in the north-eastern part of Nebraska, and there was a tornado warning just before dawn in Oklahoma City, where three possible tornadoes were reported in the west and north of the city.
The threat of severe weather were to go to the south-central Kansas on Sunday. Weather forecasters predict will be windy with a high of almost 70 years.
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