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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 ...
Tornadoes were reported at 7:50 p.m. three miles northeast of Alta Vista; another report, believed to happen around 8:02 p.m., was just northeast of the first in Volland where a rancher reported ...
That tornado traveled 8.8 miles, had a max width of 400 yards and produced estimated top winds of 115 mph. It lasted from 7:45-8:15 p.m. The storms also caused power outages and large hail.
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.
The Kansas City metro and surrounding counties can expect heavy rain, strong winds and scattered hail starting Friday around 7 p.m. with a tornado watch.
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 killed 10 people in Greensburg and two more in neighboring ...
A large tornado was reported at 7:54 p.m. Wednesday to be on the ground near Volland, an unincorporated community in eastern Wabaunsee County, the weather service's Topeka office's website said.
That tornado killed nine people and was later rated an EF5, the first since the Greensburg, Kansas tornado. According to the SPC Storm Reports, 50 tornadoes have been reported throughout the day. At 4:55 pm, an EF3 tornado touched down in Lino Lakes, a northern suburb of the Minneapolis-St. Paul area.