The Tornado Watch also extends to central Missouri, including Columbia and Jefferson City; southwest Missouri, including Springfield and Joplin; and all the way to St. Louis and Illinois.

Image caption, Dakota Kildoo was visiting Joplin for a graduation ceremony when the tornado hit Dakota Kildoo lives in Phoenix, Arizona, but was visiting Joplin to witness the graduation of his ...

May 22, 2011 – An EF5 tornado strikes Joplin, Missouri, killing at least 158 people. It is the deadliest single US tornado since federal record-keeping began in 1950. The tri-state tornado of ...

Besides chaos, John Decker also found an amazing sense of resiliency in Joplin, Mo. The mixture of emotions stemmed from his experience in a town devastated by a three-quarter-mile-wide tornado ...

Weaving together dozens of professional and amateur archival sources, along with dramatic interviews with the people behind the cameras, Witness: Joplin Tornado reconstructs the deadliest tornado ...