Members of Plymouth Congregational Church look at damage to the site caused by a microburst that hit Lawrence on March 12, 2006. Eight spires were damaged or destroyed in the storm.
Richard Dwight Hilpman, a member of Plymouth Congregational Church, looks at the damage to the church after the microburst.
A man inspects for damage at Central Jr High after the microburst blew an air handling unit off the roof and landed in the foreground.
Brin Pine examines an irrigation unit that was damaged by the heavy winds March 12, 2006.
The Douglas County Courthouse suffered a broken window and a broken tower spire in the aftermath of a severe thunderstorm that hit Lawrence around on March 12, 2006, causing damage across much of the city.
Onlookers survey damage on the 900 block of Mass. Street. A microburst hit Lawrence at 8 a.m., March 12, 2006, knocking down power lines and uprooting trees.
Clean up on Massachusetts Street after the microburst.
Lawrence residents study the damage to the US Bank downtown after the March 12, 2006 microburst.
Downed stoplight at the corner of 11th and Mass. Streets.
Clean-up on Mass. Street after the March 12, 2006, microburst.
The microburst caused much damage to the Replay Lounge.
The microburst blew out windows at the Replay Lounge.
Passersby take photos through a hole where a window used to be into Replay Lounge, 946 Mass. in the aftermath of a severe thunderstorm that hit Lawrence around 8 a.m. on March 12, 2006, causing damage across much of the city.
Broken glass and overturned bar stools surround Amanda Meyers, a worker at the Replay Lounge, in downtown Lawrence, Kan. where all the windows where blown out in a storm that hit Lawrence, Sunday morning, March 12, 2006.
Kai Blosser, age 8, examines bleachers blown across the playing field at Central Jr. Hi.
People walk by South Park and toward downtown In the aftermath of a severe thunderstorm that hit Lawrence around 8 a.m. March 12, 2006, causing damage across much of the city.
Leslie Sharp of Lawrence, Kan. views a knocked over semi-tractor trailer truck in the parking lot of the Home Depot store after a storm blew through Lawrence Sunday, March 12, 2006.
Damage to a home after the March 12, 2006, microburst.
The left side of a barn at Nunemaker-Ross farm remains intact while the entire right side was destroyed in the severe thunderstorm that hit Lawrence around 8 a.m. March 12, 2006, causing damage across much of the city.
Downed road sign at 14th and Connecticut.
Storm damage to the Haskell Indian Nations University track and field.
William Renfro, a resident at teh Clinton Place Apartments in Lawrence, Kan. looks at a car that was crushed by a brick wall that came loose from the building, after a storm passed through Lawrence, around 8:30 a.m. Sunday, March 12, 2006.
A tree blown over by the March 12, 2006, microburst crushed a car.
Residents on the 900 block of Rhode Island survey the damage from the microburst.
David Best, left, and Patrick Giroux, right, survey the damage in Giroux's 9th and Rhode Island Street home. Tornadic winds hit Lawrence at 8 a.m. on March 12, 2006, knocking down power lines and uprooting trees.
Storm damage at 15th and Connecticut.
Microburst damage to Danforth Chapel on KU's campus.
Several broken limbs and downed trees lay across a sidewalk in South Park in the aftermath of a severe thunderstorm that hit Lawrence around 8 a.m. March 12, 2006, causing damage across much of the city.
Cattle at the Nunemaker-Ross farm stand in their pen surrounded by debris in the aftermath of a severe thunderstorm that hit Lawrence around 8 a.m. March 12, 2006, causing damage across much of the city.
Pieces of sheet metal roofing are spread across a cattle pen and field on the Nunemaker-Ross Inc. farm in North Lawrence in the aftermath of a severe thunderstorm that hit Lawrence around 8 a.m. March 12, 2006, causing damage across much of the city.
Westar Employees look over damaged power lines along Kasold north of Clinton Parkway.
Tree damage to a trailer home after the microburst on March 12, 2006.
An East Lawrence resident looks at a downed tree on the 900 block of Connecticut Street.
Brandon Bell, Lawrence, center, Matthew Zellmer, Kansas University sophomore of Inver Grove Heights, Minn., left, and Adam Paulitsch, Kansas University sophomore of Saint Louis, Mo., right, move a downed tree blocking 9th and Alabama. Tornadic winds hit Lawrence at 8 a.m. March 12, 2006, knocking down power lines and uprooting trees.
Karey Bray walks between a large barn on the Nunemaker-Ross Inc. farm at left and what remains of the roof in the foreground at left in the aftermath of a severe thunderstorm that hit Lawrence around 8 a.m. March 12, 2006, causing damage across much of the city.
Storm damage to a home at 8th and Connecticut.
Trampoline destroyed by the March 12, 2006 microburst.
Downed gas pumps on Haskell Drive.
Tree blocking an alley after the March 12, 2006 microburst.
A Chrysler P.T. Cruiser in a parking lot near 11th and Mass. St. sits damaged amidst pieces of debris in the aftermath of a severe thunderstorm that hit Lawrence around 8 a.m. March 12, 2006, causing damage across much of the city.
Angie Sullivan and John Momberg check out the missing roof at 946 Rhode Island.
Workers at the Nunemaker-Ross farm shore up ceiling supports to a damaged barn in the aftermath of a severe thunderstorm that hit Lawrence around 8 a.m. March 12, 2006, causing damage across much of the city.
Brandon Bell, Lawrence, center, Matthew Zellmer, Kansas University sophomore of Inver Grove Heights, Minn., left, and Adam Paulitsch, Kansas University sophomore of Saint Louis, Mo., right, move a downed tree blocking 9th and Alabama. Tornadic winds hit Lawrence at 8 a.m. March 12, 2006, knocking down power lines and uprooting trees.
Karey Bray walks between a large barn on the Nunemaker-Ross Inc. farm at left and what remains of the roof in the foreground at left in the aftermath of a severe thunderstorm that hit Lawrence around 8 a.m. March 12, 2006, causing damage across much of the city.
Storm damage to a home at 8th and Connecticut.
Trampoline destroyed by the March 12, 2006 microburst.
Downed gas pumps on Haskell Drive.
Tree blocking an alley after the March 12, 2006 microburst.
A Chrysler P.T. Cruiser in a parking lot near 11th and Mass. St. sits damaged amidst pieces of debris in the aftermath of a severe thunderstorm that hit Lawrence around 8 a.m. March 12, 2006, causing damage across much of the city.
Angie Sullivan and John Momberg check out the missing roof at 946 Rhode Island.
Workers at the Nunemaker-Ross farm shore up ceiling supports to a damaged barn in the aftermath of a severe thunderstorm that hit Lawrence around 8 a.m. March 12, 2006, causing damage across much of the city.
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