Multiple twisters hit Kansas

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LAWRENCE, Kansas (CNN) -- Multiple tornadoes were reported Thursday as the Midwest endured another day of storms.

One twister swept through an apartment complex in Lawrence, ripping the roofs off several of the buildings there and scattering debris onto the cars in parking lots. Lawrence is home to the University of Kansas, but officials said the tornado did not hit campus.

Kansas Emergency Management spokeswoman Joy Moser said tornado touchdowns also were reported in Overbrook, Lyndon, Maple Hill and Osage City -- all in the region of Topeka.

There were no reports of injuries or deaths.

"We're just trying to get an idea of damage and see if it's going to be like it was Sunday," Moser said, referring to the last band of tornadoes that swept through the region, killing seven.

Forecasters said the violent storms were the result of a low-pressure system moving up from the Southwest, mixing a lot of heat and moisture in the atmosphere.

Dan McCarthy, a warning coordination meteorologist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, described the storms as "very dangerous."

He also warned there could be no let-up from the inclement weather through the weekend. The storms are expected to wreak havoc in the Ohio and Tennessee valleys Friday.

Then, another storm system is expected to move up from the southwest on Saturday, creating more severe storms in the Central and Southern Plains stretching into the Mississippi Valley.

"We're going to anticipate more of this through the weekend," McCarthy said.

Tornadoes spawned from storms this month have already set a record, with 225 reported in the first seven days of May. More than 40 people have been killed in the non-stop storms.

The previous record was in May of 1999, when 159 tornadoes were reported, McCarthy said.

The violent storms come nearly four years to the date as a series of killer tornadoes that hit the region May 3, 1999. Forty-seven people died in those storms in Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas.

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