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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 ...
On the evening of May 4, 2007, amid a tornado outbreak, a large and devastating EF5 tornado moved through Kiowa County, Kansas, United States, causing catastrophic damage to the town of Greensburg. 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 ...
The town of Greensburg, Kansas, suffered total devastation from the United States' first EF5 tornado in eight years. In early May 2007, a significant tornado outbreak affected the Central United States. Over a three-day period from May 4–6, a total of 132 tornadoes touched down across seven states.
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
But when you look at averages since tornadoes started to be recorded in 1950, this year’s number doesn’t seem that high. From 1950 to 2023, the average tornadoes Kansas saw per year was 61.
Truck being crushed by a tree during the Brooklyn tornado on August 8, 2007. An EF2 tornado struck New York City at 6:30 am EDT (10:30 UTC) on August 8. The hardest-hit area was the Bay Ridge area of Brooklyn, where many trees—as much as 40% of the trees in Sunset Park were knocked down and several homes and buildings lost part of their roofs ...
City center, twelve days after the tornado struck (2007) 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 outbreak of May 4–6, 2007 was a devastating tornado outbreak that took place in Kansas, resulting in the deaths of thirteen people.Eleven of these deaths alone came from the 2007 Greensburg tornado, a massive EF5 tornado and the first in the United States to be rated as such.