The path was out of Olathe ... a house in KC just one month before the tornado. Our little Martin City house was destroyed. I remember going to Ruskin Heights the next week and seeing the letters ...

the Ruskin Heights tornado of 1957. The F5 tornado made a 71-mile path of destruction from Williamsburg, Kan, to Knobtown, Mo. At times, it was as massive as half a mile wide. Author and survivor ...

It’s now known simply in Kansas City as the Ruskin Heights tornado. And 64 years later ... many families in the storm’s path had less than a minute to hunker down. Plus, many Kansas City ...

Sunday will mark the 55th anniversary of the Ruskin Heights tornado, which killed 40 people and injured hundreds more as it tore a 71-mile path across the southern part of the metro from Franklin ...

But soon the whole Kansas City area would come to know it as the Ruskin Heights Tornado. Just seven years old at the time, Brewer's home was in the path of the tornado that hit the evening of May ...

The tornado reached peak strength with possibly over 300 MPH winds as it crossed the Kansas/Missouri state line and then blasted through the Ruskin Heights and Hickman Mills neighborhoods.

It’s now known simply in Kansas City as the Ruskin Heights tornado. And 63 years later ... many families in the storm’s path had less than a minute to hunker down. Plus, many Kansas City ...

Yesterday I mentioned that I wasn’t going to write a blog today but I did do a facebook post about yesterday being the 68th anniversary of the Ruskin Heights tornado… A bunch of you were kind ...