Greensburg’s EF5 Tornado: How This Small Town Became Ground Zero for Tornado Ratings

In the evening hours of Friday, May 4, 2007, amid a tornado outbreak across the central United States, a devastating tornado moved through Kiowa County, Kansas, heavily damaging the town of Greensburg. The tornado, known as the Greensburg tornado,[2][3] tracked 28.8 miles (46.3 km) through the area, killing 12 people and injuring 63. The tornado was the first to be rated EF5 on the Enhanced Fujita scale after the retirement of the original Fujita scale in the United States on February 1, 2007. G

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