At 9:45 p.m. May 4, 2007, an EF5 tornado hit Greensburg , Kansas, destroying the town and killing 12 people.. This photo, taken three days later, shows typical damage.

At 9:45 p.m. May 4, 2007, an EF5 tornado hit Greensburg , Kansas, destroying the town and killing 12 people.. This photo, taken three days later, shows typical damage. (Max McCoy/Kansas Reflector ...

Five ‘strong’ EF3 tornadoes tore through Kansas on Sunday night. While the tornadoes may have had winds close to 200 mph, they passed over largely rural areas.

In 2007, Greensburg was slammed by an EF5 tornado that was more than 1.5 miles wide and packed winds up to 205 mph, leveling more than 90% of the town of 1,400 and killing 12.

Here's prog blog spin imagining that people around the world can recreate this quirky Kansas town that rose to the occasion ...

The tornado that struck Udall in 1955 was an EF5. So was the Greensburg twister of 2007 and the Joplin, Missouri, tornado of May 2011, a storm that killed 158 people and demolished a third of the town ...

Two tornadoes hit Kansas City, one near Truman Sports Complex and the other in Independence, causing tree damage with winds up to 100 mph.

Two tornadoes hit Kansas City, one near Truman Sports Complex and the other in Independence, causing tree damage with winds up to 100 mph.

A tornado briefly touched down Tuesday afternoon near the I-435 and I-70 interchange in eastern Kansas City. The National Weather Service confirmed in a damage survey released Wednesday. Advertisement ...

Two separate tornado warnings came through in Johnson County, Kansas, according to the county emergency management department — first at 1:45 p.m. and then at 2:10 p.m.

While floodwaters around Wichita, Kan., 200 miles away, kept rescuers busy, a tornado warning went into effect for nearly 350,000 people in Kansas City, Mo., and surrounding cities.