The Joplin, Missouri tornado of May 22, 2011 killed 158 people. This ranks it as the 7th deadliest tornado in U.S. history.
The Joplin, Missouri tornado of May 22, 2011 injured an estimated 1,150 people and killed 158.
The Joplin, Missouri tornado of 2011 injured over 1,100 people.
No tornado hit Joplin, Missouri in 2012. However, Joplin was devastated by an EF5 tornado on May 22, 2011. That tornado directly killed 158 people, the deadliest to hit the U.S. since 1947. Three or four other people died due to indirect effects.
The costliest single tornado in U.S. history is the Joplin, Missouri tornado of May 22, 2011. The tornado, rated EF5, caused $2.8 billion in damage and killed 158 people.
A Missouri tornado is a tornado that occurs in the U.S. state of Missouri. If you want an example, there is the tornado that hit the city of Joplin, Missouri on May 22, 2011 killing 158 people. It was the seventh deadliest tornado in U.S. history.
The Joplin tornado killed 158 people. The City of Joplin has a population of about 50,000 and the tornado destroyed about 1/3 of the city. So that means about 17,000 were impacted by the tornado, nearly all of whom survived.
158 people were killed by the Joplin tornado. Another tornado on the same day killed 1 person in the Minneapolis area.
The deadliest single tornado in history was the Daultatpur-Saturia, Bangladesh tornado of 1989. We don't know how big it was (probably and F5), but we do know it killed 1300 people, probably more. The deadliest tornado in US history was the Tri-state tornado of 1925. It was an F5 and killed about 700 people. The most destructive tornado in terms of the value of property destroyed was the Joplin, Missouri tornado of 2011, which causes $2.8 billion worth of damage.
Yes. Joplin, Missouri was under a tornado warning for 19 minutes before the tornado hit. That actually may have worked against them as after a while some people left shelter thinking the warning was a false alarm.
By far the worst tornado to hit the U.S. in 2011 was the Joplin, Missouri tornado of May 22. This tornado was rated EF5, the highest level of tornado intensity. 30% of the city of Joplin was destroyed. In total the tornado killed 158 people (in addition to several indirect deaths), injured over 1,100 , caused $2.8 billion in damage, and destroyed nearly 7,000 homes. This makes it the costliest and 7th deadliest tornado in U.S. history.
The Kirksville, Missouri tornado of May 13, 2009 killed 2 people.
The five deadliest U.S. tornadoes of 2007 areThe Deland, Florida EF3 tornado of February 2 (13 deaths)The Greensburg, Kansas EF5 tornado of May 4 (11 deaths)The Enterprise, Alabama EF4 tornado of March 1 (9 deaths)The Lady Lake, Florida EF3 tornado of February 2 (8 deaths)The Eagle Pass, Texas EF3 tornado of April 24 (7 deaths)