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From May 4–6, 2007, a major and damaging tornado outbreak significantly affected portions of the Central United States.The most destructive tornado in the outbreak occurred on the evening of May 4 in western Kansas, where about 95% of the city of Greensburg in Kiowa County was destroyed by an EF5 tornado, the first of the new Enhanced Fujita Scale and such intensity since the 1999 Bridge ...
The tornado, known as the Greensburg tornado, Greensburg, or GT in later studies, tracked 28.8 miles (46.3 km) through the area, killing eleven and injuring sixty-three others. The tornado was the first to be rated EF5 on the Enhanced Fujita scale after the retirement of the original Fujita scale in the United States on February 1, 2007.
An EF-5 tornado struck the Kiowa County town west of Wichita on May 4, 2007. Remembering those who died in the 2007 tornado that devastated Greensburg, Kansas Skip to main content
At 9:45 p.m. CDT on May 4, 2007, during a deadly tornado outbreak, [24] Greensburg took a direct hit from a rain-wrapped EF5 tornado. The tornado was estimated to be 1.7 miles (2.7 km) in width — wider than the city itself — and traveled for nearly 22 miles (35 km). The tornado killed 10 people in Greensburg and two more in neighboring ...
Nominator(s): E F 5 16:56, 23 December 2024 (UTC) [] This article is about the massive EF5-rated tornado that hit Greensburg, Kansas on the night of May 4, 2007. The tornado directly hit he town, damaging 95% of the buildings within city limits to some degree and killing eleven people.
The storms that hit Kansas on Sunday night contained brief tornadoes, 100 mph wind gusts and golf ball size hail, according to a report published by the National Weather Service on Wednesday.. It ...
One person died Tuesday when a tornado ripped through the small city of Westmoreland in northeastern Kansas, destroying houses, RVs and outbuildings, authorities said. Pottawatomie County ...
See section on this tornado family – This was an anticyclonic satellite tornado of the EF5 Greensburg tornado event; no damage occurred. [28] EF1 SSE of Greensburg (1st tornado) Kiowa: KS: 02:55–02:59 4.6 mi (7.4 km) 100 yd (91 m)