A storm with winds of at least 70 mph caused significant damage across Lawrence on Sunday morning. From left, Myra Leclaire, Javier Alva, 9, and Bruce Whiteman, 8, survey the damage after an uprooted tree smashed the family's minivan in the driveway of their home near 23rd Street and Haskell Avenue.
William Renfro, a resident at the Clinton Place Apartments, 2125 Clinton Parkway, looks at a car that was crushed by a brick wall that collapsed during Sunday's storm.
Trees litter the streets near South Park following strong winds that ripped through the area Sunday morning.
Damage left behind from a storm that struck the city Sunday morning.
Trees litter South Park following Sunday morning's storm.
Damage left behind from a storm that struck the city Sunday morning.
Downed trees on Vermont street next to South Park.
WIndows at the Replay Lounge, 10th and Mass, were blown out by storm winds.
Limbs were down across town including in front of the old Carnegie Library at 9th and Vermont streets.
The Sunday morning storm dropped heavy hail west of Lawrence. This scene is on U.S. Highway 40 near Big Springs in eastern Douglas County.
City workers cleaning debris on Mass. St.
City workers clean debris near the corner of 9th and Mass. streets about 10:30 a.m. Sunday.
Limbs were down across town including in front of the old Carnegie Library at 9th and Vermont streets.
A bicyclists surveys the storm damage near 9th and Alabama streets.
Downed limb in the 800 block of Alabama.
A cyclist examines the damage on Alabama Street.
Vehicle beneath a fallen limb on Alabama Street.
A Toyota Landcruiser got the brunt of a down tree limb on Alabama Street in old West Lawrence.
A large tree was uprooted in the front yard of a home in the 700 block of Alabama.
A window at the Douglas County Courthouse was broken during Sunday's storm.
Several stoplights at 11th and Massachusetts streets were torn from their pole during Sunday's storm.
A window was damaged at the Douglas County Courthouse.
A stoplight at the intersection of 11th and Massachusetts street was torn off its pole and came to rest in a parking lot.
One of the stoplights from 11th and Massachusetts streets came to rest about 50 yards away from the intersection. The car is parked in the lot at the northeast corner of the intersection.
A stoplight at 11th and Massachusetts streets came to rest in the parking lot near the intersection.
A brick wall fell on a car at the Clinton Place Apartments near 23rd and Iowa streets.
A brick wall collapsed on a car at the Clinton Place Apartments near 23rd and Iowa streets.
Stoplight blown into a parking lot at 11th and Mass.
A brick wall crashed onto a vehicle at Clinton Place Apartments near 23rd and Iowa streets.
A tree damaged a sign at the Hillview Apartments on 24th Street.
Many of the windows at Flowerama on 23rd Street were shattered in Sunday's storm.
A tree was damaged at Lawrence High School.
Family members worked to repair a hole in the roof of the home at 1945 Tenn.
Papa Keno's.
A tree damaged the home at 1945 Tenn.
A pin oak tree landed on Toots and Jerry Schultz's home at 1945 Tenn. Their son, Jake, barely escaped injury when the tree crashed into his room.
A tree damaged Toots and Jerry Schultz's home at 1945 Tenn.
Jerry Schultz inspects the damage to his home at 1945 Tenn.
A tree fell on top of the home at 1945 Tenn.
Tree limbs litter the yard and lie on top of the home at 1945 Tenn.
A pin oak tree behind Toots and Jerry Schultz's home was broken in half and landed on their home.
A tree damaged the home at 1945 Tenn.
A city crew worked to remove a tree that fell across Louisiana Street just south of the KU campus.
A city crew worked to remove a tree that fell across Louisiana Street just south of the KU campus.
Jim Hahn, a worker in the city street department, saws a tree that fell across Louisiana Street near Sunnyside Avenue, just south of the KU campus.
City crews worked to remove a tree that fell across Louisiana Street just south of the KU campus.
Kansas softball head coach Terri Bunge talks on her cell while viewing damage at the softball field just south of Allen Fieldhouse. Kansas had to cancel its tournament as a result of the damage.
Greg Wellnitz, center, a sophomore from Neosho Rapids, Kan. seals up a broken window while fellow resident of Templin Hall John Kenney, left, sophomore from Leavenworth, Kan. and Kyle Schmidt, right, sophomore from Overland Park , Kan. help. Templin was evacuated after loosing a roof air conditioner and a gas leak was feared.
A woman leans on her truck to view the damage that a large Bradford Pear tree caused to a late model Chevy truck at Fifth and Indiana.
Roof and other types of debris are strewn aroung the Kansas Geological Survey building near 19th and Iowa.
Pat Ross, center, co-owner of Nunemaker-Ross Inc. farm, surveys the damage to one of his barns with his daughters Virginia Sutton, second from left, and Karen Bray, left, in the aftermath of a severe thunderstorm that hit Lawrence around 8 a.m. this morning, causing damage across much of the city. The Nunemaker-Ross farm was heavily damaged in Sunday's storm, destroying a large part of a 1912 barn and a large cattle barn. Ross expected to lose some cattle from the damage.
An entire brick facade fell on this car as a result of strong storms which blew through Lawrence Sunday morning. The building, which houses apartments for retired persons, is located west of Verizon wireless. Area newscrews, photographers, writers as well as curious citizens were out viewing and capturing the damage.
Several broken limbs and downed trees lay across a sidewalk in South Park in the aftermath of a severe thunderstorm that hit Lawrence around 8 a.m. this morning, causing damage across much of the city.
Broken glass and overturned bar stools surround Amanda Meyers, a worker at the Replay Lounge, 946 Mass., as she sits at the bar only an hour after a severe thunderstorm hit Lawrence around 8 a.m. this morning, causing damage across much of the city.
Passers-by take photos through a hole where a window used to be into Replay Lounge, 946 Mass., in the aftermath of a severe thunderstorm that hit Lawrence around 8 a.m. this morning, causing damage across much of the city.
A Chrysler P.T. Cruiser in a parking lot near 11th and Mass. St. sits damaged amidst pieces of debris in the aftermath of a severe thunderstorm that hit Lawrence around 8 a.m. this morning, causing damage across much of the city.
The left side of a barn at Nunemaker-Ross farm remains intact while the entire right side was destroyed in the severe thunderstorm that hit Lawrence around 8 a.m. this morning, causing damage across much of the city.
Brian Pine, along with Hubert Ideler, a friend from Germany, look over one of 4 irrigation units that suffered heavy damage Sunday morning east of Lawrence.
City crews work the 1300 block of Connecticut clearing away large oak trees blocking the roadway.
High winds blew this semi truck over at the parking lot of the Home Depot store at 31st and Iowa.
An overnight stay with friends in Lawrence was all Angie Sullivan and John Momberg were thinking, but around 8:30 a.m. they awoke to noise as the home where they were staying at 946 Rhode Island lost its roof.
David Koone, who works for Deer Valley Construction of Perry, picks up some plywood at the KU Credit Union at 31st and Iowa.
Westar employees look over damaged power lines along Kasold Drive north of Clinton Parkway, around 9:00 a.m. Sunday morning.
Damage to the neighborhood near 11th and North Park.
Damage to the neighborhood near 11th and North Park.
Damage to the neighborhood near 11th and North Park.
Damage to the neighborhood near 11th and North Park.
A knocked-down gas pump at 19th Street and Haskell Avenue.
A tree pierces an automobile near Prospect Avenue and 12th Street.
A mangled trampoline in a Lawrence resident's backyard, near Brook Creek Park.
A damaged house in the 1900 block of Tennessee.
Passing between parts of a roof air conditioner, students make their way back to Templin Hall on Kansas University's main campus after the dorm was evacuated due to a suspected gas leak in the wake of Sunday morning's storm.
Brandon Bell, Lawrence, center, and Matthew Zellmer, a Kansas University sophomore from Inver Grove Heights, Minn., move a downed tree blocking Ninth and Alabama streets.
Members of the Plymouth Congregational Church look at damage the church sustained from an early morning storm.
Addie Mehl helps clean up debris of what was a farm shop/machine shed at Pendleton's Country Market, 1446 E. 1850 Road.
Trees, houses and cars like these at 12th and Kentcuky were damaged by strong storms Sunday morning.
From left, Karey Bray, Dena Soden and Virginia Sutton hug each other while looking at the damage to their father and uncle's barn on the Nunemaker-Ross Inc. farm outside Lawrence after a storm hit the community Sunday.
Karey Bray walks between a large barn on the Nunemaker-Ross Inc. farm at left and what remains of the roof in the foreground at left in the aftermath of a severe thunderstorm that hit Lawrence around 8 a.m. this morning, causing damage across much of the city.
Member of the Kansas baseball grounds crew sophomore Caleb Santos-Silva tapes off an opening in the chain link fence which was blown over on the north side of the field men's baseball diamond.
Cattle at the Nunemaker-Ross farm stand in their pen surrounded by debris in the aftermath of a severe thunderstorm that hit Lawrence around 8 a.m. this morning, causing damage across much of the city.
Trees, houses and cars like these at 12th and Kentcuky were damaged by strong storms Sunday morning.
From left, Karey Bray, Dena Soden and Virginia Sutton hug each other while looking at the damage to their father and uncle's barn on the Nunemaker-Ross Inc. farm outside Lawrence after a storm hit the community Sunday.
Karey Bray walks between a large barn on the Nunemaker-Ross Inc. farm at left and what remains of the roof in the foreground at left in the aftermath of a severe thunderstorm that hit Lawrence around 8 a.m. this morning, causing damage across much of the city.
Member of the Kansas baseball grounds crew sophomore Caleb Santos-Silva tapes off an opening in the chain link fence which was blown over on the north side of the field men's baseball diamond.
Cattle at the Nunemaker-Ross farm stand in their pen surrounded by debris in the aftermath of a severe thunderstorm that hit Lawrence around 8 a.m. this morning, causing damage across much of the city.
Pieces of sheet metal roofing are spread across a cattle pen and field on the Nunemaker-Ross Inc. farm in North Lawrence in the aftermath of a severe thunderstorm that hit Lawrence around 8 a.m. this morning, causing damage across much of the city.
Workers at the Nunemaker-Ross farm shore up ceiling supports to a damaged barn in the aftermath of a severe thunderstorm that hit Lawrence around 8 a.m. this morning, causing damage across much of the city.
Jeff Severin, environmental stewardship manager at KU, picks up pieces of trash and Styrofoam near the Chancellors residence on the KU campus.
A student passes by Danforth Chapel on the KU campus after taking a photograph of the building damaged in SundayÃs storm.
From left Rep. Barbara Ballard, Paul Davis, KU Chancellor Robert Hemenway, Sen. Marci Francisco and Gov. Kathleen Sebelius report on their fly-over of the Lawrence area to assess the damage from Sunday's storm. The Gov. made the trip Monday.
From left Senator Marci Francisco, Rep. Paul Davis and Barbara Ballard and Gov. Kathleen Sebelius leave the Lawrence Airport after an earlier fly over of Lawrence and a press conference at the airport. The Gov. toured the damaged areas of the community Monday morning.
A KU employee views damaged tiles on the roof of Stauffer-Flint Hall on the KU campus. Because of the threat of damaged tiles falling off the roof classes were cancelled Monday.
Larry Sarlls, owner of High Plains Tree Service, Eudora, works on Rhode Island St. picking up tree debris from Sunday's storm.
Kansas Department of Transportation employees work on a turnpike sign that was knocked down just beside I-70 near the east Lawrence interchange during SundayÃs storm.
Yellow tape bars entrance around Fraser Hall on the KU campus. Damage to the roof and fear of falling roof tiles was one of the reasons classes were cancelled Monday after Sunday's storm damage.
Joe Rortina, of Lawrence, helps cut downed tress at 1224 Del. Residents around the city began clearing tree limbs and other debris Monday.
A 500-pound roof ventilator lays on some air-conditioning units at Central Junior High School. This unit, one of three of the schools roof ventilators,on the school roof since 1923, was blown about 150 feet from the roof to the ground.
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