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The tornado is the deadliest to strike the Kansas City metropolitan area, and was the deadliest worldwide in 1957. The tornado was rated F5 on the Fujita scale, the first of three worldwide to receive this rating in 1957. The tornado touched down near Williamsburg at 7:15 p.m., headed northeast.
From May 19–22, 1957, a tornado outbreak took place across the US Central Plains.A total of 59 tornadoes were reported from Colorado to the Mississippi Valley. [note 1] [note 2] The most destructive tornado of the severe weather event—likely part of a long-lived family—was rated at F5, the highest level, and is often called the Ruskin Heights tornado, after the site of its worst damage ...
On May 19, 1957, a tornado cut a significant 71-mile path through major businesses and neighborhoods of Ruskin Heights. Rated an F5 on the Fujita scale, the tornado was the largest of the May 1957 Central Plains tornado outbreak sequence, and has been called the Ruskin Heights tornado in parts of the neighborhood. The town has since mostly ...
A tornado was reported within the city, causing no known damage. F0: Montevideo,Uruguay [96] November 17 2011 0 A tornado touched down with no damage reported F1: Limeira, Brazil [97] March 3, 2013 0 A large F1 tornado caused serious damage within the city. F0: Brasília [98] October 1, 2014 0 (0 injured) Brief landspout F0: Asunción, Paraguay ...
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The Kansas City metro and surrounding counties can expect heavy rain, strong winds and scattered hail starting Friday around 7 p.m. with a tornado watch.
Weather service issues tornado watch for large part of Kansas, including Wichita. The Wichita area could see baseball-sized hail, tornadoes, heavy rain and wind gusts as high as 70 mph, according ...
A large outbreak of 26 tornadoes struck the Great Plains on April 22, although the only tornado to cause casualties was an F3 tornado that injured one in Carnegie, Oklahoma. After two weak tornadoes touched down on April 23, an outbreak of 11 tornadoes hit Indiana and Texas on April 24 with 10 of them in the later state.