The limestone is in near 111th and Blueridge Boulevard. All that’s needed now are the lettering and plaques to remember the ...

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The Ruskin Heights Homeowners Association laid down new wreaths in front of the tornado memorial at 110th & Blue Ridge. It includes a plaque with all the victims' names.

Ruskin Heights tornado survivor Mike Smith (Courtesy of Grace Smith) Survivors like Mike Smith, who was five when the tornado hit, are grateful that the memorial is getting rebuilt.

It’s now known simply in Kansas City as the Ruskin Heights tornado. And 64 years later, it’s still utterly astonishing to see the destruction the F5 tornado left on the south Kansas City ...

My grandmother was killed when my mother was about 12 years old in the Ruskin Heights tornado. She was in a store that took a direct hit. Her name was on the old memorial, her name was Catherine ...

Editor’s note: The 1951 Ruskin Heights tornado took only 15 minutes to kill dozens of people and to damage hundreds of homes. It stayed on the ground for 71 miles, eventually taking 41 lives and ...

Eldur Olafsson, the CEO of Amaroq, discusses the firm's mining operations in Greenland and increased global interest in the Arctic nation. Astrophysicist Dr. Hakeem Oluseyi on SpaceX's Starship 36 ...

Tornado winds likely do exceed 300 MPH in the strongest tornadoes, and the F-5 tornado that reached its peak intensity near Ruskin Heights 65-years-ago, was likely one of the strongest to hit the ...

It’s now known simply in Kansas City as the Ruskin Heights tornado. And 63 years later, it’s still utterly astonishing to see the destruction the F5 tornado left on the south Kansas City ...

Read stories from people who experienced the Ruskin Heights tornado, an F5 tornado that destroyed homes and claimed 44 lives.