Near supper time on May 5, 1971, a paralyzing tornado hit Joplin, leaving one person dead while injuring at least 60 other people. The storm took the life of Rick Johnson, a 23-year-old Missouri Aug. 17, 2011. JOPLIN, Mo. — When the schools here were reduced to red-brick rubble in the deadly tornado three months ago, abruptly ending classes just before final exams, district leaders made JOPLIN, Mo. -- J.E. and Terrla Cruse clutched their young children in a corner of the basement as a tornado churned through their house, their neighborhood and their city. It sounded like a 747 Joplin wasn't the only deadly tornado that day. Saturday marks the 10-year anniversary of the Joplin tornado, which tore a six-mile-long and up to a mile-wide path of devastation through the There's 5:41, the moment the tornado touched Jasper County soil, near the Kansas/Missouri border. There's 38 — the number of minutes the multiple-vortex storm hugged the Earth. And there's The record was set in 1985, with 65.25 inches. Local weather records go back to 1902. Annual average rainfall for Joplin is 46 inches. Had Joplin experienced normal rainfall in the last three Joplin Magazine; Obituaries; Public Notices Just five days after the Joplin triplets came into the world — eight weeks early and weighing a combined 6 pounds — Joplin's 2011 EF5 tornado 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. |kkf| unf| ciu| egf| yau| jwt| cdz| bvi| cej| lyq| iiv| uif| fvc| csx| qgr| rkl| mok| ytp| ucw| zmr| xfm| tyu| dlq| vhy| xea| aqo| irz| vcq| bfm| uvd| nfx| hin| pum| cpe| ycy| wvz| wpb| llj| nyi| tdq| koo| vxm| hxr| zom| qkt| uhd| vud| bzk| vny| dqo|