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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 2001 Hoisington tornado was a violent and destructive tornado that hit the city of Hoisington, Kansas on April 21, 2001. The tornado killed one and injured twenty-eight others, and left one-third of the city devastated, with over 400 structures damaged to varying degrees.
The tornado was also one of the deadliest in Kansas history, along with being the deadliest in the history of Comanche and Kiowa counties. The tornado is the one of the largest officially surveyed tornado in Kansas history, at 1.7 miles (2.7 km); the Trousdale tornado that touched down on the same day had a larger width, at 2.2 miles (3.5 km).
The tornado continued northeast, affecting the outskirts of Towanda. Twenty minutes later, the violent tornado dissipated west of El Dorado and north of the Kansas Turnpike, though the parent supercell later produced additional tornadoes. [6] Along the tornado's path, 84 frame houses and 14 businesses were leveled. A total of 225 people were ...
The tornado gained notoriety when a Kansas television crew sought shelter underneath an overpass on the Kansas Turnpike. Video from the crew shows a minivan several hundred yards down the turnpike being rolled multiple times, with other vehicles such as large semi-trailer trucks overturned and severely damaged as well.
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.
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