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A weak tornado reported in the vicinity of Joplin, Missouri caused minor damage Thursday afternoon. Eric Wise, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service office in Springfield, said a brief ...
Ten years ago, Joplin, Missouri, was devastated by an enormous and powerful tornado -- which set records that still stand today. On the afternoon on May 22, 2011, a supercell thunderstorm began ...
The 2011 Joplin tornado was a large EF5 tornado that devastated Joplin, Missouri, United States, on the evening of Sunday, May 22, 2011.As part of a larger late-May sequence of tornadic activity, the extremely violent tornado began just west of Joplin and quickly reached a peak width of nearly 1 mile (1.6 km) as it tracked through the southern part of the city, before later impacting rural ...
Severe storms could bring tornadoes to Missouri Wednesday. Here’s what we know about the forecast, including the time period and parts of the state where the risk is expected.
An especially destructive EF5 tornado destroyed one-third of Joplin, Missouri, resulting in 158 deaths and over 1,000 injuries. [7] [8] The Joplin tornado was the deadliest in the United States since April 9, 1947, when an intense tornado killed 181 in the Woodward, Oklahoma, area.
At 3:25 pm CST (2025 UTC), the SPC issued a PDS tornado watch for much of Arkansas and parts of Missouri, Oklahoma, Texas and Louisiana. [44] Tornadoes were scattered that day until early evening, when an intense tornadic cell tracked near the Little Rock metropolitan area and a tornado emergency was declared for Vilonia, Arkansas. A 0.5-mile ...
The tornado then exited Winchester at a weaker, but still strong EF2 intensity and struck a farmstead, inflicting intense tree damage and unroofing a home. The tornado was still causing intense ground-scouring at this point, and this would continue to the Ohio state line. Many farmsteads were hit by the tornado, mainly at EF1-EF2 intensity with ...
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