The National Weather Service has determined the tornado that struck Chapman in Dickinson County Wednesday night inflicted EF3 damage, grew to a half-mile wide and had peak winds of 150 miles an hour.
A damage assessment team will be returning to the area today, but preliminary research indicate the tornado tracked from near Chapman, through the town of 1,400 residents and on to northwest of Junction City before falling apart.
The tornado killed a woman whose name has not yet been released, and damaged or destroyed about 60 percent of the buildings in Chapman.