EF5 Tornado levels Greensburg Kansas.

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#181 Postby badger70 » Sat May 05, 2007 11:24 am

Un.be.liev.a.ble. :eek: Reminds me of the stories from Barneveld, WI, from 1984.
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#182 Postby TampaSteve » Sat May 05, 2007 11:27 am

Wow...this is bad...really bad...and the NWS is calling for more of the same today.
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#183 Postby Category 5 » Sat May 05, 2007 11:29 am

Tornado warnings were up for this cell until almost 3am central time.

This is the storm as it moved into Greensburg.

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#184 Postby Category 5 » Sat May 05, 2007 11:32 am

Saw a report from Greensburg on TWC. Other then the occasional wall, it's just a pile of debris.

The town is basically gone :(
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#185 Postby Category 5 » Sat May 05, 2007 12:02 pm

seeing pictures from Greenburg on TWC. This might be an EF5. It looks comparable to Bridge Creek. :cry:
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#186 Postby Weatherfreak14 » Sat May 05, 2007 12:04 pm

Wow, this is total devastating i feel very humble and honnored i was tracking the storm last night. Its so sad to see the pictures coming out of KS total devastion.
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#187 Postby Category 5 » Sat May 05, 2007 12:06 pm

I can only imagine how violent it must of been.
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#188 Postby Miss Mary » Sat May 05, 2007 12:23 pm

This is truly a heartbreaking situation. Devastation, block after block. I also can only imagine how violent this storm must have been. Heard about the employees who took shelter in a convenience store's walk in fridge. After the storm passed, there was nothing left standing but the walk in after they opened the door. Thank God they took cover in there!

The scenes coming out of Kansas today are incredibly sad.

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#189 Postby Category 5 » Sat May 05, 2007 12:34 pm

40 foot elevators picked up and hurled through buildings :eek:
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#190 Postby southerngale » Sat May 05, 2007 1:19 pm

Did y'all see the City Administrator, Hewitt in the news conference? Understandably, he doesn't know how his town will recover from this. I believe he said that they were finding more bodies, so expect that 7 to go up. It's just so sad. :(


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Just a slab and rubble remain where a house was destroyed by Friday night's tornado in Greensburg, Kansas.
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#191 Postby ohiostorm » Sat May 05, 2007 1:33 pm

Truly unbelievable. My thoughts to everyone from the effected areas.
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#192 Postby Tampa Bay Hurricane » Sat May 05, 2007 1:39 pm

this is horrible...i pray for everyone who was affected by this storm
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#193 Postby Category 5 » Sat May 05, 2007 1:41 pm

9 dead
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#194 Postby Hurricaneman » Sat May 05, 2007 1:45 pm

The damage looks comperable to the Moore, OK storm in 1999
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#195 Postby Ptarmigan » Sat May 05, 2007 1:48 pm

This has to be the worst tornado since 1999 Moore tornado. I would not be surprised if the death toll rises. :cry:
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#196 Postby Category 5 » Sat May 05, 2007 2:15 pm

TWC'S Jorma Doran was on the phone a sec ago. Here are some quotes.

"Nothing in sight even resembles a town"
"Brick, metal, and concrete buildings levelled"
"Cars looked like they've been put through a blender"

Then TWC proceeded to cut him off to show Dr Anna Marie
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#197 Postby Hurricaneman » Sat May 05, 2007 2:26 pm

This is a big weather story, and they cut to Anna Marie :grr:
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#198 Postby Category 5 » Sat May 05, 2007 2:27 pm

Hurricaneman wrote:This is a big weather story, and they cut to Anna Marie :grr:


I don't get it.

They're showing old commericals from the good old days, when it was about the weather.
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#199 Postby JonathanBelles » Sat May 05, 2007 2:32 pm

Greensburg has another line heading its way.
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#200 Postby Category 5 » Sat May 05, 2007 2:37 pm

fact789 wrote:Greensburg has another line heading its way.


The 10% of it thats left.

The damage is as bad as Bridge Creek and Moore in 1999.

Concrete and Brick, wiped away.
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