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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 ...
Northwest of Greensburg, the tornado suddenly turned, looping back around before dissipating just before hitting Greensburg a second time. 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 ...
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)
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
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 ...
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.
To date, a total of 201 [needs update] (304 unofficially) [2] known tornado emergencies have been issued by the NWS through its local Weather Forecast Offices; all but 16 of these have resulted in a confirmed tornado, [3] [2] with the resulting tornadoes being responsible for a total of 554 fatalities.
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