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Massive Tornado Has Hit Multiple Towns In Kansas
http://www.spc.noaa.gov/climo/reports/today.html ^ | May 5, 2007

Posted on 05/05/2007 12:04:35 AM PDT by silentknight

Damage being reported for over 100 miles. Reports of dozens of injuries and missing people. Damage to numerous towns from one large tornado or a series of large tornadoes. Tornado tracked from south of Greensburg, Kansas and is still going as of 2 a.m. this morning near Claffin, Kansas.

Reports of dozens of homes destroyed. Many people still trapped.

Red Cross is opening a number of shelters.

Ambulances being called in from over 100 miles away.

Reports of fatalities.

NWS reports the tornado was over one mile wide. Numerous reports of damage swaths of 1/2 mile to one mile wide.


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; US: Iowa; US: Kansas; US: Minnesota; US: Nebraska; US: South Dakota
KEYWORDS: kansas; tornado
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1 posted on 05/05/2007 12:04:39 AM PDT by silentknight
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To: silentknight

Greensburg tornado photo

http://www.kotv.com/newsimages/640/5beb8a57-1b53-4ca2-bb0f-8d9e78249169.jpg


2 posted on 05/05/2007 12:05:10 AM PDT by silentknight
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To: silentknight

Tornado is still on the ground...reports of damage have been coming in for FOUR HOURS+ straight.


3 posted on 05/05/2007 12:05:37 AM PDT by silentknight
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To: LongElegantLegs

for later


4 posted on 05/05/2007 12:06:43 AM PDT by LongElegantLegs (<--- "Crazy Aunt" Conservative)
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To: silentknight

Prayers for all affected.


5 posted on 05/05/2007 12:13:57 AM PDT by spotbust1 (Procrastinators of the world unite . . . . .tomorrow!!!)
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To: silentknight

Prayers for all those in harms way... may God guide the rescuers to the victims.


6 posted on 05/05/2007 12:17:04 AM PDT by dandelion
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To: silentknight

Holy crap. That is enormous.

Is there a map of the path and trajectory?


7 posted on 05/05/2007 12:20:04 AM PDT by Choose Ye This Day (Don't let the Gang of Three (Pelosi, Reid, Hillary) fight the War on Terror.)
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To: silentknight
http://weather.kansascity.com/auto/kansascity/radar/mixedcomposite.asp?region=b3&size=2x&type=loop


8 posted on 05/05/2007 12:27:14 AM PDT by Dumpster Baby ("Hope somebody finds me before the rats do .....")
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To: silentknight

Prayers for those who are hurt and trapped..Prayers for those who mourn.


9 posted on 05/05/2007 12:31:19 AM PDT by MEG33 (GOD BLESS OUR ARMED FORCES.)
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To: silentknight

http://www.kake.com/breakingnews/7347256.html
Tornado Coverage - Raw Video 2:12am

Greensburg Suffers Significant Damage In Tornado
Tornado Coverage - Raw Video 2:12am
Reporter: KAKE News

Updated 2:20am

May 5 2007— Video from Greensburg, Kansas shows massive tornado damage. Much of the downtown of the Kiowa County town has been leveled. A large wedge-shaped tornado hit the town of 1,600 around 10:00 p.m. Friday.

KAKE’s Nick VinZant spoke with some citizens who report seeing damage at the Kiowa County Memorial Hospital at Grant and Walnut, including a roof collapse in one wing of the building. VinZant has seen sigificant damage with dozens of homes and buildings either damaged or destroyed. VinZant says much of the downtown area has suffered extensive damage. It appears the tornado hit the west side of Main Street.

KAKE storm chaser Lanny Dean reports a motel destroyed on the West side of Greensburg. Large farm equipment has also been destroyed.

At least 12 people have been transported from Greensburg to Pratt Regional Hospital. A shelter has been established at Barclay College in Haviland, which is 12 miles east of Greensburg.

Power is out for the entire community, and multiple power lines are down. Greensburg is a town of about 1,600 people and is the county seat of Kiowa County. A search and rescue crew from Sedgwick County is in route to Kiowa County.


10 posted on 05/05/2007 12:32:43 AM PDT by idkfa
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To: silentknight

Prayers on the way.


11 posted on 05/05/2007 12:35:18 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker ( Hunter/Thompson/Thompson/Hunter in 08! Or Rudy/Hillary if you want to murder conservatism)
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To: silentknight

prayers sent.


12 posted on 05/05/2007 12:42:21 AM PDT by Lost Dutchman (I thought WWI started because some bloke named Archie Duke shot an ostrich because he was hungry.)
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To: silentknight

Good Lord.


13 posted on 05/05/2007 12:43:10 AM PDT by BigCinBigD (You "abort" bad missile launches and carrier landings. Not babies.)
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To: silentknight
Prayers lifted.
14 posted on 05/05/2007 12:44:37 AM PDT by TASMANIANRED (Taz Struck By Lightning Faces Battery Charge)
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To: silentknight

Prayers on the way for all affected.


15 posted on 05/05/2007 1:26:45 AM PDT by Kathy in Alaska (~ God Bless and Protect Our Brave Protectors of Freedom~)
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To: silentknight

That is ONE MONSTER. Boy, I hope those good folks are okay.


16 posted on 05/05/2007 2:13:31 AM PDT by Lexinom (DH08/FT08)
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To: silentknight

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,270153,00.html


17 posted on 05/05/2007 4:19:27 AM PDT by deaconjim (Because He lives...)
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To: silentknight

A single tornado, a mile wide? Wow.


18 posted on 05/05/2007 5:27:08 AM PDT by George W. Bush (Election Math For Dummies: GOP รท Rudi = Hillary)
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To: silentknight

It’s pretty NASTY:

Tornado Wallops Kansas Town; 1 Killed

Saturday May 5, 2007 12:46 PM

GREENSBURG, Kan. (AP) - Rescuers pulled about 30 people from a partially collapsed hospital Saturday after a tornado ripped through this southwest Kansas community and killed at least one person.

The injuries of those who were trapped there were minor, said Sharon Watson, spokeswoman for the Kansas Adjutant General’s Department.

The tornado struck Friday night, leaving a broad swath of destruction in the Kiowa County town about 110 miles west of Wichita. The storm front spawned tornadoes along a path stretching northeast from Greensburg through central Kansas.

Watson said authorities were trying to account for all the residents of the town, and did not have an exact count on the injured.

Phone service to the town of about 1,600 residents was knocked out, and the state’s department of transportation was trying to restore emergency service.

Emergency personnel and search and rescue teams from throughout southwest Kansas raced toward Greensburg after the twister struck.

The injured were taken to hospitals as far away as Dodge City, where the Western Plains Medical Complex confirmed one fatality. The Pratt Regional Medical Center treated about 50 people, a hospital spokeswoman said. Three patients were sent on to Wichita’s Wesley Medical Center, including two who were in critical condition, she said.

Search dogs accompanied law enforcement officers as they searched house to house for anyone trapped or injured.

Roads into and out of Greensburg were closed for several hours to allow emergency vehicles to reach the town.

The National Weather Service described the tornado as a ``wedge,’’ an especially broad and tall formation. Frederick Kruse of the weather service’s Dodge City office said there were initial reports that the tornado was at least three-quarters of a mile wide on the ground.

Sharon Watson, spokeswoman for the Kansas Adjutant General’s Department, said the state fire marshal’s office dispatched hazardous materials teams because railroad cars in Kiowa County had overturned.

She said the National Guard was sending 40 troops to provide security around Greensburg.

Shelters were opened for Greensburg residents at Barclay College and a high school in nearby Haviland.

At the high school, the Rev. Gene McIntosh described how he huddled with his family in the parsonage of Greensburg’s United Methodist Church as the tornado roared overhead. McIntosh said sofa cushions protected his 11-year-old son and the boy’s friend from debris and insulation that fell from the basement ceiling.

``There was a lot of praying down there,’’ McIntosh said.

Elsewhere on Friday, three small tornadoes touched down in rural southwestern Illinois, but officials said there were no reports of injury or damage. Two tornadoes struck in Oklahoma, damaging some structures but injuring no one, officials said

MAP:

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19 posted on 05/05/2007 5:35:02 AM PDT by JB in Whitefish
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To: silentknight

Prayers.


20 posted on 05/05/2007 5:44:16 AM PDT by Valin (History takes time. It is not an instant thing.)
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