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  2. Mercy Hospital Joplin - Wikipedia

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    Mercy Hospital Joplin, formerly known as St. John's Regional Medical Center, is a hospital in Joplin, Missouri, USA. The hospital is famous for suffering devastating damage in the 2011 Joplin tornado. The original storm-ravaged building was demolished in 2013.

  3. 2011 Joplin tornado - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. Tornado outbreak sequence of May 21–26, 2011 - Wikipedia

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    Tower camera of the Joplin tornado before impacting the St. John's Regional Medical Center. Widespread, catastrophic damage occurred around the St. John's Regional Medical Center, which itself lost nearly every window on three sides, interior walls, ceilings, and part of its roof. The hospital's life flight helicopter was also blown away and ...

  5. Tornado causes minor damage near Joplin, no injuries ... - AOL

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    Joplin was the site of one of the deadliest tornadoes in U.S. history, in 2011. An EF5 multi-vortex twister with winds peaking at 250 mph killed 161 people and left behind a swath of damage across ...

  6. Mercy Park, Joplin, Missouri - Wikipedia

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    It was created as a result of the recovery efforts following the May 2011 tornado on what was the hospital's original site. [2] It sits adjacent to the new Mercy Chapel Park and reconstructed Cunningham Park; the area is known as "ground zero" for the tornado touchdown and heaviest of storm damage. [citation needed]

  7. Waffle House Index - Wikipedia

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    A Waffle House location may close in preparation for an incoming storm for the safety of its customers and employees, which is unrelated to actual storm damage. The intent of the Waffle House Index is to measure how quickly a location reopens after the storm passes. The quicker the reopening, the less overall damage the area sustained in the storm.

  8. Man charged in fire that engulfed Clovis Walmart, caused $40 ...

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    Sep. 16—A man is accused of using propane tanks as a makeshift explosive to torch a Walmart earlier this month in Clovis, causing $42 million in damage. Jimmy Guillen, 59, is charged with arson ...

  9. Disagreements on the intensity of tornadoes - Wikipedia

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    A United States Army Corps of Engineers map shows the tornado's damage path as it moved nearly due east through Joplin, with the most intense damage near its centerline However, the EF5 rating stood. The NWS office in Springfield stated that their survey teams found only a small area of EF5 structural damage, and that it could have easily been ...