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===2007 tornado=== {{Main|Greensburg tornado}} [[Image:Greensburg kansas tornado.jpg|thumb|left|250px|City center, twelve days after the tornado struck (2007)]] At 9:45 p.m. [[Central Time Zone|CDT]] on May 4, 2007, during a [[Tornado outbreak of May 4โ6, 2007|deadly tornado outbreak]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.pratttribune.com/articles/2007/05/07/news/00.txt|title=The article requested cannot be found! Please refresh your browser or go back. (KS,,2007,5,AR). - PrattTribune - Pratt, KS - Pratt, KS|access-date=9 May 2007|archive-date=3 February 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150203202905/http://www.pratttribune.com/articles/2007/05/07/news/00.txt|url-status=dead}}</ref> Greensburg took a direct hit from a rain-wrapped EF5 tornado. The tornado was estimated to be {{convert|1.7|mi|km}} in width โ wider than the city itself โ and traveled for nearly {{convert|22|mi|km}}. The tornado killed 10 people in Greensburg and two more in neighboring communities.<ref>{{cite web|title=Man Dies Months After Kansas Tornado Hit|date=24 September 2007|access-date=31 January 2017|work=[[U.S.A. Today]]|url=http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-09-23-1953064368_x.htm}}</ref> Tornado sirens sounded in the city twenty minutes before the tornado struck, and a [[tornado emergency]] was issued, is believed by experts to have saved hundreds of lives.<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=[[Santa Barbara Independent]]|title=On the Road โ Tornado Alley|url=http://www.independent.com/news/2008/mar/28/road-tornado-alley/|access-date=27 May 2008|archive-date=4 July 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080704215205/http://www.independent.com/news/2008/mar/28/road-tornado-alley/|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|author=NOAA Satellite and Information Service|title=Event Record Details|url=http://www4.ncdc.noaa.gov/cgi-win/wwcgi.dll?wwevent~ShowEvent~657501|access-date=12 April 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080503091723/http://www4.ncdc.noaa.gov/cgi-win/wwcgi.dll?wwevent~ShowEvent~657501|archive-date=3 May 2008|url-status=dead}}</ref> The tornado lasted for a total of one hour and five minutes and caused $250 million in damages.<ref>Oberholtz, Chris. [https://www.audacy.com/knss/news/local/looking-back-at-the-devastating-greensburg-tornado-of-2007 "Looking Back: The Devastating Greensburg Tornado of 2007 Destroyed 95% of Kansas Town [Video]"]. KNSS</ref> Ninety-five percent of the city was confirmed to be destroyed, with the other five percent being severely damaged. The [[National Weather Service]] estimated winds of the tornado to reach {{convert|205|mi/h|km/h|abbr=on}}. It was the first tornado in history to be rated EF5 since the implementation of the [[Enhanced Fujita scale]] earlier that year. It was also the first [[Fujita scale|F5]] or EF5 classification since May 3, 1999, when an [[1999 Bridge CreekโMoore tornado|F5 tornado]] devastated [[Moore, Oklahoma]] during the [[1999 Oklahoma tornado outbreak]]. Kansas [[List of governors of Kansas|Governor]] [[Kathleen Sebelius]] and [[President of the United States|President]] [[George W. Bush]] both declared Kiowa County a [[disaster area]],<ref>{{cite web|author=KAKE-TV|title=President Bush Declares Disaster in Kansas|url=http://www.kake.com/home/headlines/7359591.html|access-date=6 May 2007|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070613122036/http://www.kake.com/home/headlines/7359591.html|archive-date=13 June 2007}}</ref> which opened up the affected areas for national and [[international aid]].
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