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The tornado touching down in Kansas Aerial view of damage caused by the Ruskin Heights F5. This violent, long-tracked, multiple-vortex event was likely a family of tornadoes. Forming near Williamsburg, it moved northeastward through several counties, producing near-continuous damage; a single tornado was likely present for 50 mi (80 km) or more.
In the afternoon hours of April 26, 1991, a large and devastating tornado moved 46 miles (74 km) through areas southeast of Wichita, located in the state of Kansas.The tornado killed seventeen, injured over two hundred others, and left an estimated $300 million ($700,058,432 in 2024) of damage in its wake.
The tornado crossed the Kansas Turnpike about 0.5 miles (0.80 km) south of the South Wichita Interchange. [91] In eastern Wichita, some well-built houses in the Greenwich Heights Subdivision were completely leveled, indicative of strong F3 to F4 damage. Four people were killed at this location. [92]
The total includes a fatal tornado that killed one person in Westmoreland and destroyed least 22 homes and damaged 13 more. Westmoreland is about 2 1/2 hours from Wichita. Westmoreland is about 2 ...
Tornado outbreak of April 28–29, 1950; Tornado outbreak of June 19, 1951; Tornado outbreak sequence of June 25–27, 1951; Tornado outbreak of May 21–24, 1952; 1953 Waco tornado outbreak; Tornado outbreak of May 29, 1953; 1955 Great Plains tornado outbreak; Tornado outbreak of May 19–22, 1957; Tornado outbreak sequence of June 20–23, 1957
The 1955 Great Plains tornado outbreak was a deadly tornado outbreak that struck the southern and central U.S Great Plains States on May 25–26, 1955. It produced at least 48 tornadoes across seven states including two F5 tornadoes in Blackwell, Oklahoma, and Udall, Kansas that caused most of the casualties.
On April 26, 1991, an EF5 tornado killed 17 people as it raked across Wichita into Andover, Kansas. Here's what happened that day. On April 26, 1991, an EF5 tornado killed 17 people as it raked ...
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 ...