95% of Greensburg, KS was destroyed late Friday night, May 4th, when a tornado stuck that community. Reports confirm eight residents were killed, and many more were injured. Severe weather continued all weekend across the Central Plains and the Midwest.According to the National Weather Service, the Greensburg tornado was an F-5, the most powerful tornado possible. The tornado cut a 22-mile long path, and the twister was an amazing 1.7 miles wide!
The last tornado of this magnitude was almost exactly eight years earlier, when a tornado struck Oklahoma City on May 3, 1999, killing 36 people. --Jay
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