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Greensburg, Kansas is almost completely destroyed by the 2007 Greensburg tornado, a 1.7-mile wide EF5 tornado. It was the first-ever tornado to be rated as such with the new Enhanced Fujita scale.
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Greensburg, Kansas
City in Kiowa County, Kansas
Greensburg is a city in and the county seat of Kiowa County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2020 United States census, the population of the city was 740. It is home to the world's largest hand-dug well.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Greensburg tornado
2007 EF5 tornado in Kansas, U.S.
In the evening hours of Friday, May 4, 2007, amid a tornado outbreak across the central United States, a massive and devastating EF5 tornado moved through Kiowa County, Kansas, heavily damaging the town of Greensburg. The tornado, commonly known as the Greensburg tornado,…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Enhanced Fujita scale
Tornado intensity rating scale
The Enhanced Fujita scale is a scale that rates tornado intensity based on the severity of the damage a tornado causes. It is used in the United States and France, among other countries. The EF scale is also unofficially used in other countries, including China and Brazil. The…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Tornado
Violently rotating column of air
A tornado is a violently rotating column of air that is in contact with the surface of Earth and a cumulonimbus cloud or, in rare cases, the base of a cumulus cloud. It is often referred to as a twister, whirlwind or cyclone, although the word cyclone is used in meteorology to…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)