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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.
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 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.
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)
Toggle Tornadoes and tornado outbreaks in chronological order subsection. 3.1 1950s. 3.2 1960s. 3.3 1970s. 3.4 1980s. 3.5 1990s. 3.6 2000s. ... 2007 Greensburg tornado;
S of Greensburg (2nd tornado) Kiowa: KS: 02:25–02:26 0.73 mi (1.17 km) 30 yd (27 m) See section on this tornado family – This was an anticyclonic satellite tornado of the EF5 Greensburg tornado event; no damage occurred. [57] EF1
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Tornado outbreak sequence of April 20–27, 2007; List of tornadoes in the outbreak of May 4–6, 2007; List of United States tornadoes in May 2007; Tornado outbreak of May 4–6, 2007; 2007 Elie tornado; List of United States tornadoes from October to December 2007; Tornado outbreak of October 17–19, 2007; Mid-December 2007 North American ...