''Ultimate Tornado'' is a documentary that first aired on the
National Geographic Channel
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on April 12, 2006. It focuses on several unusually violent tornado events that have occurred in the United States, which include the 2004
Attica, Kansas
Attica is a city in Harper County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 516. The town was named after the historical region of Attica, in Greece.
History
Land for the community was purchased in late J ...
tornado outbreak (Attica F2 and Harper F4), the 1995
Pampa, Texas
Pampa (from the Quechua: ''pampa'', meaning "plain") is a city in Gray County, Texas, United States. Its population was 16,867 as of the 2020 census. Pampa is the county seat of Gray County and is the principal city of the Pampa micropolitan ...
tornado (F4), the
Jarrell tornado (F5), and the
1999 Bridge Creek tornado (F5).
It last examined the possible effects of a theoretical F5 tornado hitting downtown
Dallas, Texas
Dallas () is the third largest city in Texas and the largest city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, the fourth-largest metropolitan area in the United States at 7.5 million people. It is the largest city in and seat of Dallas County w ...
, postulating that this would be the worst tornado in history in terms of cost, damage, destruction and loss of life.
2006 in the environment
National Geographic (American TV channel) original programming
Documentary films about disasters
Tornado
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