A section of wall collapsed at Boeing's southeast Wichita campus on Tuesday, Sept. 15, after a localized downburst hit the area with 75 mph winds. No one was injured.

Emergency crews responded to the Boeing-operated building near Oliver Street and MacArthur Road after the collapse was reported around 3:30 p.m., according to the Wichita Eagle, which cited emergency scanner traffic. Sedgwick County Emergency Communications confirmed no injuries.

Boeing told KSN-TV that a 40-foot section of wall came down and damaged two vehicles. The Eagle described the wall as 70 feet, though it is unclear whether that figure refers to the wall's full height or total length versus the portion that collapsed.

Andy Kleinsasser, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Wichita, said 75 mph winds were detected at McConnell Air Force Base roughly a minute before the collapse was reported. McConnell sits about a mile east of the Boeing campus.

Kleinsasser said the damage was likely caused by strong winds followed by a downburst, a burst of powerful wind that comes from a thunderstorm and spreads out quickly once it hits the ground.

"It's like taking paint on the end of a brush and just splattering it on the wall," Kleinsasser told the Eagle. "There are going to be splatters from the paint brush somewhere on the wall over here, but we don't know exactly where all these individual splatters are going to go."

The extreme conditions were tightly concentrated. Kleinsasser said most of the Wichita metro was largely unaffected, with damage confined to a small corridor in the far southeast part of the city.

NWS Wichita had flagged the threat roughly 30 minutes before the collapse. The office posted on X at about 3:02 p.m. that thunderstorms over the southeast Wichita metro were capable of 60 to 70 mph downburst winds and localized flooding.

An earlier morning forecast had warned of scattered storms with 55 to 65 mph gusts, with the highest chances between 3 p.m. and 9 p.m.

No information was available on whether the building was occupied at the time, what it is used for, or whether Boeing operations were disrupted. Boeing has not released a public statement beyond the details provided to KSN.