During the evening hours of Sunday, May 22, 2011, a large, deadly and devastating EF5 tornado, known most commonly as the Joplin tornado, [11] or Joplin EF5, [1] struck the city of Joplin, Missouri, United States, causing catastrophic damage to it and the surrounding regions.

6 days ago · Aftermath of tornado on May 24, 2011 in Joplin, Missouri. Joe Raedle/Getty The Joplin tornado took place in Joplin, a small city in southwest Missouri that had a population of about 50,000 at the ...

May 21, 2021 · Late in the afternoon, a tornado rated as the most intense on the Enhanced Fujita (EF) Scale, an EF5, cut a 6-mile-long (9.7-kilometer) gash through the densely populated Joplin metro area, home to more than 50,000 people.

May 22, 2011 · The Joplin Tornado was a catastrophic EF5 tornado that struck Joplin, Missouri in the late afternoon of Sunday, May 22, 2011. This tornado is one of the deadliest in the U.S. since the April 9, 1947 tornado in Woodward, Oklahoma and the seventh-deadliest in U.S. history.

6 days ago · The Joplin tornado was only the second EF-5 to hit Missouri since 1950. According to Storm Aware , it ranks as the seventh-deadliest tornado in U.S. history and the 27th-deadliest worldwide.

2 days ago · The horror of the Joplin tornado is the subject of a new documentary film, released nearly 14 years after the twister struck Missouri with cataclysmic force, ripping into a hospital, destroying neighborhoods and killing around 160.

When and where was the Joplin, Missouri tornado? The Joplin tornado hit land in the early evening of May 22, 2011 which started as a typical spring Ozarks day in which severe weather was looming ...

1 day ago · The horror of the Joplin tornado is the subject of a new documentary film, released nearly 14 years after the twister struck Missouri with cataclysmic force, ripping into a hospital, destroying neighborhoods and killing around 160. “You see pictures of World War II, the devastation and all that with the bombing,” Kerry Sachetta, then the Joplin High School …

May 22, 2012 · This storm produced an EF-5 (greater than 200 mph) tornado over Joplin, Mo., resulting in 158 fatalities and over 1000 injured in the Joplin area. This storm along with others generated additional tornadoes, wind damage and flash flooding across far southwest Missouri.

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 more than 200 mph, the tornado destroyed or damaged virtually everything in a six-mile path.