Tornadoes, Severe Storms Hit the Plains, Midwest (PHOTOS)

A multi-day round of severe weather began Tuesday in the Plains and Midwest, spawning several tornadoes that caused damage in rural areas. On Wednesday, the severe storms impacted a larger swath of the two regions, and damage was reported in cities like Chicago and Kansas City.

Several tornadoes were spawned on both days, but wind damage knocked down trees and even parts of some buildings from Oklahoma to Illinois as a line of storms moved west to east on Wednesday evening. Thousands lost power because of the storms, and the terminal at Oklahoma City's Will Rogers World Airport was evacuated for about an hour Wednesday night as the severe weather came through.

No serious injuries or deaths were reported from either round of storms Tuesday or Wednesday.

Storm chasers tracked several twisters in progress Tuesday evening across parts of Kansas, where the state's first tornadoes of 2018 were spotted, and also in Nebraska. They were responsible for only minor structural damage, and no injuries were reported.

One tornado that tracked near the Kansas towns of Tescott and Minneapolis was rated EF3; it was just the third EF3 tornado confirmed in the United States so far in 2018.

See the slideshow above for images of the storms, and check back for more details as this days-long weather event continues.