On the night of May 4th, 2007, the town of Greensburg, KS would be subjected to the world’s first EF5 tornado. This is the story of the survivors, the incredible supercell that produced it, and what happened after this monster tornado tore through this western Kansas town.
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Just in case there are some who were at first confused, as I was – this is not the first "F5" tornado. It is the first F5 tornado labeled as an "EF5" under the newly adopted (Feb. 2007) "Enhanced Fujita Scale", not mentioned until 7:58… The prior F5 rating began at an incredible 261mph! , while the EF scale rates EF5 beginning 200mph… quite a difference.
A flash warning for those of us who suffer from seizures would have been appreciated.
God ❤'s tornados !
This was a great video! Awesome visuals, good narration. Definitely subscribing!
My brother is a meteorologist out of the Dodge City office and was the one, along with his team, that issued the Tornado Emergency that night. Very proud of the work him and his team did that night to warn Greensburg residents.
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As a truck driver traveling back and forth between California and the Midwest (where I live now), I would drive through Greensburg to monitor its progress. I watched it transform literally from a war zone to a modern rebuilt small town. This was literally a testament to their resilience.
You know what makes me wonder, what the natives and the newly arrived immigrants to america thought of their first sight of a tornado.
I remember seeing the damage of Greensburg when I was in 3rd grade when I was living in Lawton Oklahoma. I was called to do some kind of food drive to help the people. My entire class agreed and wanted to band together but ended up doing a penny drive cuz principal didnt like a food drive for some reason! The penny drive was a money drive donation to help fund the town for help and rebuilding houses.
It worked and I still have the letter from the Mayor of Greensburg thanking me and my school for starting a penny drive to help the town.
0:42 that graphic gives me the chills. Haunting.
Can't believe it's been 17 years and I haven't heard of it until recently. A major tornado hit in my home state on March 1, 2007 in Americus, GA. Would love a video dedicated to that event.
I was in the KS National Guard back then and this was a drill weekend. We went straight out there late Sunday and stayed for weeks. Totally surreal how flat the whole west side of town was. And unbelievably how many people survived in totally destroyed houses and buildings.
The people of Greensburg better have learned their lesson from this "Act of God". Our heavenly Father sent this storm to punish the sinners who disobeyed His Holy Will. They'd better get right with God or this horror will be sent again. Praise! Glory!
0:42 dude you shivered my entire body OH MY GOODNESS
I slept right through this tornado and storm and didn't even know it hit till early next morning
Bridge Creek, Moore had a Tornado touch down in 1999 that evolved into an F5 with speeds that measured around 302mph, the fastest natural wind speeds ever recorded on earth, and it still holds that record to this day, correct me if I'm wrong.
Greensburg's Tornado… Crickey… My prayers and thoughts are with everyone from that day 😢
The moving sign gave me epilepsy
Thanks for your videos
I'm watching this on May 7th a few days past the anniversary. There's a huge line of storms from Oklahoma all the way to Minnesota tonight. With it the NOAA/NWS issued a rare high risk for tornadoes. I cant help but to think about all the people in the line of these storms, especially since its night time. I hope everyone stays safe. Your in my mind and prayers.
I remember this day. I was 7 and was heading towards Wichita, we passed Greensburg and was a normal small town. On our way back, I just remember seeing nothing, just debris
i was just in the Oklahoma tornado near tinker it was terrifying https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4IDr07Z55M
Im from arizona but my dad is from northwestern kansas. We actually drove to greensburg in like 05ish cause it was just off our path, my parents wanted to go to an antique shop at an old church, solid brick building with stairs leading to the basement. When we went back, about 2 months after the tornado, the town was gone. Thats the best way i can put it. You could see 1 end to the other because every single building was flattened, mattresses in trees, etc. We tried to find that antique shop, the closest we found was a foundation with the stairs going to the basement in the right place, and a few similarly colored bricks nearby. Never did find out if that was the same building. Its what got me interested in tornadoes in the first place. The fact nature can literally pick up an entire town and shred it to pieces then dissapear, it was so crazy for my 10 year old brain to think about. Still is.
My grandmother used to live in Greensburg, but moved a couple years before the tornado hit. She knows people that still live there. It had completely leveled houses and destroyed 95% of the town. The house she had lived in was in the 5%, though it was still missing half of its roof. Insane damage and destruction.
My grandma still gets jumpy when bad weather comes through and I don't blame her at all. The trees in Greensburg still look strange, even all these years later.
We have been fortunate here in Clearview City. A deadly tornado in May of 2019 was headed right for us. Fortunately it veared off to the northeast.
Unfortunately many lost homes and livestock northeast of us. Highway 32 was hit hard. Many homes destroyed. A family a cousin knows lost their home farm and 27 dairy cows. The following day the husband was diagnosed with cancer. He's since passed but his wife lives on the same property as her brother and sister in law! And yes they are continuing to farm!
It’s crazy that the time of this video is 911
Me and my dad stayed the night there in 2022… you could still tell the trees were messed up and see some of the abandoned lots that use to be homes…. If you ever go, stop in at the crazy mule… best burger I’ve had
Barnsdall,possibly the newest ef5
Date:5/6/24
It was horrific. I feel like warnings in Kansas are pretty great. Save lives. New scale is based on damage.
its interesting to think about how there was an F5 the same season the EF system was created
When I was in high school we took a trip to help the people of greensburg clean up after the tornado. I was dumb founded when I saw the damage in person. Straw grass was impaled into tree trunks. I couldn’t believe how anybody survived. It was wild.
I spent all night in the basement that night in Great Bend, Kansas. It rained so hard water was shooting through the cracks in the foundation of my parents house. I have never seen a storm like that before or since. Driving through Greensburg 2 days later that place was indescribable.
Plot Twist: The Death Star Supercell fired an EF5 Superlaser to destroy Planet Greensburg on Star Wars Day (May 4) 2007.
My dad was deployed here for emergency help. He was National Guard
As someone who lives relatively close to greensburg, the people older than me (I was born April 2nd of the same year) talk about that day as though hell decided to rip through the sky. A memory I have of this was a 30ish year old talking about how “it was so loud that you felt like you would go deaf”
twister says otherwise☝😁
With so much experience of the power of nature it is a wonder how the Midwest has a lower awareness of global heating caused by our industrial society. If anyone should know not to mess with nature it should be people living in these places.
I live in Baltimore Maryland am I ok?
250 mph is wild!! God forbid I ever see winds that high
Bro what did GreensBurg do to the universe to deserve this?!?!? And the is this a 1/1'000'000 chance that there were 22 from that one super cell!
Damn why do you have to talk just play the video you talk like a creep
May the 4 was not with them💀
5000 joules of energy? My whole day would've been spent in the basement.