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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 Creek–Moore tornado.
10 Φεβ 2024 · Greensburg Tornado May 4th, 2007. Up to 1.7 miles wide and with maximum winds of 205 mph, an EF5 tornado devastated the town of Greensburg, Kansas. Jon Waldrup. February 9, 2024. The tornado hit at 9:45 PM with 205 mph winds, about 20 minutes after the first tornado sirens blew.
4 Μαΐ 2017 · Trees are debarked in the strongest tornadoes like Greensburg, leaving them standing as disfigured sentinels amidst piles of rubble, or snapped and sent to far-off places. Those standing might also feature puncture wounds from things like a flying sipping straw, or other weird objects.
15 Φεβ 2023 · The Greensburg tornado that destroyed 95% of Greensburg, KS on May 4th, 2007 was the strongest of a 3 day long outbreak of tornadoes from South Dakota down to Oklahoma. That tornado alone caused 11 fatalities and numerous injuries, but 25 other twisters were confirmed on the same day.
A once-prosperous downtown street in Greensburg was left with rubble and twisted trees by the EF5 tornado. (Image courtesy of Larry Reynolds, Kansas PVD) Hardesty and McMurry scoured the appraiser's office looking for disks: CDs, DVDs, anything with GIS data or aerial photography.
9 Μαΐ 2007 · Recently the town of Greensburg, Kansas was devastated by an F5 tornado and most of the town was destroyed. On May 7th one of our satellite providers, DigitalGlobe, jumped into action and gathered imagery of the region for search-and-rescue teams.
On the evening of May 4, 2007, a large and violent tornado struck the town of Greensburg, KS (Fig. 1). Approximately 95 percent of the town was destroyed including more than 500 homes and dozens of businesses. Eleven people died.
