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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 was on the ground for shortly over an hour and reached a peak width of 1.7 miles (2.7 km) to the south of Greensburg. The tornado devastated Greensburg, damaging 95% of the town and leaving monetary losses of $250 million (2007 USD) [note 3] in its wake. Rebuilding efforts after the tornado were intensive, and several major ...
Greensburg tornado Clockwise from top: A still taken by storm chaser Andy Fischer of the tornado as it appeared while impacting Greensburg (at this point, the tornado had taken on a large "wedge" shape), a heavily damaged house in Greensburg, radar imagery of the storm system that produced the tornado, workers helping cleanup efforts in Greensburg, damage to downtown Greensburg, which took a ...
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
Greensburg is an American television series broadcast on the Planet Green television network. The show takes place in Greensburg, Kansas, and is about rebuilding that town in a sustainable way after being hit by an EF5 tornado in 2007. It ran for three seasons, from June 15, 2008 to May 3, 2010.
See section on this tornado family – This was an anticyclonic satellite tornado of the EF5 Greensburg tornado event; no damage occurred. [27] EF1 SSE of Greensburg (1st tornado) Kiowa: KS: 02:55–02:59 4.6 mi (7.4 km) 100 yd (91 m)
Clockwise from top: A wedge EF5 tornado near Greensburg, Kansas on May 4; A powerful F5 tornado in Elie, Manitoba on June 22; The tornadoes' track from the Groundhog Day tornado outbreak in Florida on February 2nd; A tree crashed on a SUV in New Orleans by a tornado on February 13; Tornado damaged after a tornado struck Enterprise, Alabama on ...
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