2021年5月21日 · His body was riddled with massive injuries when he was thrown from his home. " (I suffered a) Broken radial and ulna bone in my left arm, I have titanium plates in there still,” Stephens said. “...

The tornado killed 161 residents of Joplin, destroyed 25% of the town and generated $2.2 billion in property damage. This 40 ft. tree on 20th Street near the Kansas City Southern Railway tracks has been painted with vibrant colors inspired by Native American spirit stick art. After the tornado, the “Spirit Tree” was painted by Dolores and ...

As I promised, here is my entire collection of photographs and videos of the Joplin Tornado and its aftermath. eF5, 200+ mph winds, 161 deaths, 1,150 injuries, and $2.8 billion in damage. I am linking videos in the comments.

2011年5月22日 · A massive tornado that tore a 6-mile path across Missouri killed at least 89 people as it slammed into the city of Joplin, ripping into a hospital, crushing cars like soda cans and leaving a forest of splintered tree trunks behind.

2011年5月22日 · At the bottom end of the scale, an EF0 tornado might bring down tree limbs. At the other end of the scale, an EF5 tornado has the strength to tear buildings from their foundations and carry the debris through the air. The tornado that hit Joplin, Missouri on May 22, 2011 was an EF5. It began at 5:41 PM local time and lasted for 32 minutes.

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 ...

2011年5月24日 · A tree is split in half near the water tower in Joplin on May 24, 2011. The EF5 tornado caused billions in damage and caused the deaths of 161 people.

2011年5月31日 · Many of the trees in Joplin, Mo., were felled when tornadoes struck on May 22, and others left standing will have to be cut down. Nicole Bengiveno/The New York Times. JOPLIN, Mo.

2013年2月13日 · The tornado destroyed several farmsteads and left a wide swath of tree damage before dissipating 28 miles later north of the Minnesota town of Harmony. A broken line of cells spawned several other tornadoes across Minnesota, Iowa and Wisconsin.

On May 22, 2011, a large and destructive tornado traveled through southern portions of Joplin, MO killing 158 people and injuring more than 1000 people. Total property damage exceeded 2 billion dollars. The devastation to buildings was staggering.