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The 2011 Joplin tornado was a large and devastating multiple-vortex EF5 tornado that struck Joplin, Missouri, United States, on the evening of Sunday, May 22, 2011.Part of a larger late-May tornado outbreak, the tornado began just west of Joplin at 5:37 p.m. CDT (UTC–05:00), and intensified very quickly, reaching a maximum width of nearly one mile (1.6 km) during its path through the ...
An EF3 tornado struck Reading, Kansas on May 21, resulting in severe damage and one fatality. An EF5 tornado in Joplin, Missouri resulted in 158 direct fatalities on May 22, becoming one of the deadliest tornadoes in United States history. This tornado was the most severe of the outbreak, and it caused catastrophic damage across southern ...
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.
The tornado that struck Joplin on that Sunday afternoon in 2011 caused a total of 161 fatalities and over 1,000 additional injuries -- making it the deadliest in modern-day recorded history, which ...
The deadliest tornado in modern U.S. history struck Joplin, Missouri, on May 22, 2011. It was the deadliest tornado since SPC records began in 1950. Nearly 1,000 were injured. The EF5 tornado had ...
JOPLIN, Mo. -- Empty concrete pads where houses once stood. Untouched playgrounds still riddled with broken glass. A once-bustling retail district, eerily quiet on a weekend night. Two months ...
EF5-rated damage in Hackleburg, Alabama where a large tornado killed seventeen residents. The 2011 Super Outbreak, which took place across the Southern United States from April 25–28, 2011, was the largest and third-deadliest tornado outbreak in United States history, [1] with 359 tornadoes resulting in the deaths of at least 324 people, [2] [3] the majority of whom lived in the state of ...
This is a list of all tornadoes that were confirmed by local offices of the National Weather Service in the United States in May 2011. Following the record tornado activity in April , during which 773 tornadoes struck the United States, May exhibited an unusually low number of tornadoes for the first three weeks.