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In this May 22, 2011, file photo residents walk in the street after a massive tornado hit Joplin, Mo. A sky-darkening storm was working its way into southwest Missouri around dinnertime on a ...
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, 2011.Part of a larger late-May tornado outbreak, the EF5 tornado began just west of Joplin and intensified very quickly, reaching a maximum width of nearly one mile (1.6 km) during its path through the southern part of the city.
Joplin is the center of what is regionally known as the Four State Area: Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri, and Kansas. Joplin is located north of I-44, its passage to the west into Oklahoma. In recent years, the residential development of Joplin has spread north to Webb City.
St. John's Regional Medical Center after the May 22 Joplin tornado. According to the hospital, it was founded on October 24, 1896, by Mother Mary Sullivan, and the Sisters of Mercy founded in Ireland for this work around the world. Appoline A. Blair is sometimes credited as playing a philanthropic role in the founding of St John's. [2]
Apr. 3—A Joplin man was killed in a fiery crash at 11:18 p.m. Monday at 32nd Street and Prigmore Avenue. Police said Wednesday that Cody Shaver, 19, was pronounced dead at the scene. He was ...
Aug. 21—The Jasper County coroner has ruled the death Aug. 12 of a 31-year-old Joplin man a suicide by hanging. Joplin police Capt. William Davis said two passersby reported spotting a man ...
Mercy Park is a 16-acre park in Joplin, Missouri, built on land donated by Mercy Hospital Joplin. [1] It was created as a result of the recovery efforts following the May 2011 tornado on what was the hospital's original site. [ 2 ]
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