Before & After Satellite Photos of Greensburg, KS

Astounding. Click each image for a larger file.

Read much more about the tornado via the Dodge City, KS National Weather Service Office full report that is posted here. It includes diagrams of all of the evening’s tornadoes and a brief summary:

Greensburg Tornado Rated EF-5 (updated May 22)

The First “5″ Rating on the new Enhanced-Fujita Scale
…and the first “5″ classification since May 3, 1999 when an F5 tornado ripped through Moore, Oklahoma.

This page is not complete…additional information will be available as time permits. Significant tornadoes tracked over the same areas on May 5th and distinguishing tracks from May 4th and May 5th has been difficult…along with the fact that extensive areal flooding has been occurring in the area of some of the tornado tracks. Below is an image from the Dodge City doppler radar velocity data showing the incredible rotational “tornado vortex signature” shortly before changing the town of Greensburg, Kansas forever (click image for more):

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