The 2011 Joplin tornado was a large and devastating multiple-vortex tornado that struck Joplin, Missouri, United States, on the evening of Sunday, May 22, ... Joplin, Missouri · 1953 Flint–Beecher tornado · Mercy Hospital Joplin

In the late afternoon of May 22, 2011, an EF5 multiple-vortex tornado struck Joplin, Mo. Reaching a maximum width of over one mile and with winds peaking at ...

In the afternoon and evening of May 22, 2011, a supercell thunderstorm traveled from southeastern Kansas into southwestern Missouri. Over Joplin, Missouri ...

The complete report is available here: Final Report, Technical Investigation of the May 22, 2011, Tornado in Joplin, Missouri.

The Joplin tornado, moving roughly west to east, cut a 6-mile-long path through a densely populated are and was up to a mile wide in some places.

On May 6, 2024, an EF1 tornado tracked over 9 miles through the eastern part of Joplin, Missouri. But it was nothing compared to what hit the town thirteen ...

A large tornado rated an EF-5...the strongest on the enhanced Fujita scale...tracked directly through Joplin Missouri causing devastation and a tragic loss of life.

The tornado that hit Joplin, Missouri on May 22, 2011 was an EF5. It began at 5:41 PM local time and lasted for 32 minutes.

It grew to three-quarters of a mile wide between 26th and East 20th Street. The forward speed of the tornado through most of Joplin was less than 20 mi (30 km) ...

21 мая 2021 г. · Destroyed homes and debris cover the ground as a new storm moves into Joplin, Missouri, on May 23, 2011, a day after a devastating tornado ...