Tornado in Missouri

• LJ

  

  I don't think I have ever seen this type of destruction
  
  
  
  
  Three buildings missing from the middle to the right
  
  http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150207381206165&set=a.10150207379806165.319812.726891164&type=1&theater&pid=7060370&id=726891164#!/photo.php?fbid=10150207379881165&set=a.10150207379806165.319812.726891164&type=1&theater&pid=7060328&id=726891164
• LJ

  

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  Thing was HUGE
• GoChiefs

  

  Yeah..they said it was on the ground for 4 miles. That's nuts.
• sonofsam

  

  Not to be selfish, but I'm glad it didn't happen here... That is absolutely crazy. God be with the people of Joplin...
• Bio-Hazzzzard

  

  I heard sustained winds of 190 mph on the news tonight.
  
  My heart goes out to the victims of this disaster, the previous tornado disaster, and the flooding. This is a very historical time in our countries meteorological history.
  
  There is never a good time for disasters, with that said, my heart goes out to our country.
• iclfan2

  

  More pictures at this link. It is crazy, whole neighborhoods just rubble. http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/05/tornado-ravages-joplin-missouri/100072/
• Sonofanump

  Looks worse than north Alabama.
• sonofsam

  

  Gotta be F5...
• ts1227

  

  sonofsam;778228 wrote:Gotta be F5...

  
  Preliminary rating is a very high end EF4, 190-200 MPH winds (needed to be over 200 for the EF5).
  

  NWS Springfield MO wrote: PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
  NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
  938 PM CDT MON MAY 23 2011
  
  ...JOPLIN TORNADO GIVEN A PRELIMINARY HIGH END EF-4 RATING...
  
  * DATE...22 MAY 2011
  * BEGIN LOCATION...APPROXIMATELY 3 MILES SOUTHWEST OF JOPLIN
  * END LOCATION...1 MILE SOUTHEAST OF DUQUESNE
  * ESTIMATED BEGIN TIME...541 PM * ESTIMATED END TIME...550 PM
  * MAXIMUM EF-SCALE RATING...EF-4
  * ESTIMATED MAXIMUM WIND SPEED...190-198 MPH
  * ESTIMATED PATH WIDTH...3/4 OF A MILE
  * PATH LENGTH...7 MILES
  * FATALITIES...116 REPORTED AS OF 3 PM MONDAY
  * INJURIES...400 REPORTED AS OF 3 PM MONDAY
  * BEGIN LAT/LON...37.06 N / 94.57 W
  * END LAT/LON...37.06 N / 94.39 W
  
  NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SURVEY TEAMS RATED THE TORNADO THAT KILLED OVER 100 PEOPLE IN AND AROUND JOPLIN AS A HIGH END EF-4 TORNADO. BASED UPON SURVEYS COMPLETED TODAY...MAXIMUM WINDS WERE ESTIMATED BETWEEN 190 AND 198 MPH. THE TORNADO HAD A MAXIMUM WIDTH OF 3/4 TO ONE MILE.
  
  
  THE TORNADO INITIALLY TOUCHED DOWN AROUND 541 PM NEAR THE INTERSECTION OF COUNTRY CLUB AND 32ND STREET. ADDITIONAL SURVEYS ARE EXPECTED TO BE CONDUCTED TO FURTHER DEFINE THE STARTING POINT AND INTENSITY AT THIS LOCATION.
  
  DAMAGE BECAME MORE WIDESPREAD AS THE TORNADO CROSSED MAIDEN LANE...CAUSING SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE TO NEARLY ALL WINDOWS ON THREE SIDES OF ST JOHNS HOSPITAL AS WELL AS TO THE ROOF. THE TORNADO FURTHER INTENSIFIED AS IT DESTROYED NUMEROUS HOMES AND BUSINESSES TO THE EAST AND NORTH OF THE HOSPITAL. THE HIGHEST RATED DAMAGE IN THIS AREA WAS TO A CHURCH SCHOOL THAT HAD ALL BUT A PORTION OF ITS EXTERIOR WALLS DESTROYED AS WELL AS TO A NURSING HOME. WINDS IN THAT AREA WERE ESTIMATED AT 160 TO 180 MPH.
  
  THE TORNADO CONTINUED TO DESTROY OVER 100 HOMES BETWEEN 32ND AND 20TH STREETS. THREE STORY APARTMENT COMPLEXES HAD THE TOP TWO FLOORS REMOVED...OTHER TWO STORY COMPLEXES WERE PARTIALLY LEVELED. A BANK WAS TOTALLY DESTROYED WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THE VAULT. A DILLONS GROCERY STORE ALSO HAD SIGNIFICANT ROOF AND EXTERIOR WALL DAMAGE. LASTLY...THE EXTERIOR AND INTERIOR WALLS OF A TECHNICAL SCHOOL...A MORTAR AND REBAR REINFORCED CINDER BLOCK BUILDING...FAILED.
  
  THE TORNADO CROSSED RANGELINE ROAD NEAR 20TH STREET. THE MOST INTENSE DAMAGE WAS NOTED JUST EAST OF THIS INTERSECTION WHERE A HOME DEPOT WAS DESTROYED BY AN ESTIMATED 190 TO NEARLY 200 MPH WINDS. IN ADDITION...THE CUMMINS BUILDING...A CONCRETE BLOCK AND HEAVY STEEL BUILDING...HAD ITS STEEL ROOF BEAMS COLLAPSE. SPORTS ACADEMY AND THE WALMART ALSO SUFFERED SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE.
  
  THE TORNADO CONTINUED TO MOVE EASTWARD ALONG AND SOUTH OF 20TH STREET DESTROYING NUMEROUS WAREHOUSE STYLE FACILITIES AND RESIDENCES THROUGH DUQUESNE ROAD. WINDS IN THIS AREA MAY ALSO APPROACH 200 MPH. THE TORNADO CONTINUED TO DESTROYING NUMEROUS HOMES BEFORE WEAKENING AS IT TURNED SOUTHEAST TOWARD INTERSTATE 44. SUBSEQUENT DAMAGE SURVEYS WILL BE REQUIRED TO DETERMINE THE SCOPE OF ADDITIONAL REPORTS ALONG AND SOUTHEAST OF THE INTERSECTION OF HIGHWAY 71 AND INTERSTATE 44.

  The indicators they use to gauge their estimates are on the bottom parts of this page I have linked below. Based on the initial construction, they have wind estimates for the degree of damage (DOD).
  http://www.spc.noaa.gov/faq/tornado/ef-scale.html
• madman11

  I have a friend who is from Joplin and had a really hard time getting in touch with her family. Thank God they are all ok
• Hb31187

  

  Was it worse than the one that hit Iowa a few years back. The name of the town is slipping my mind
• BCBulldog

  

  Hb31187;778415 wrote:Was it worse than the one that hit Iowa a few years back. The name of the town is slipping my mind

  
  I think you may be referring to the one in Greensburg, KS. This one is worse in nearly every way. The only difference is that Greensburg is much smaller than Joplin and nearly all of Greensburg was destroyed.
• Hb31187

  

  BCBulldog;778424 wrote:I think you may be referring to the one in Greensburg, KS.

  
  Yes thats it. It was Kansas not Iowa, my bad.
  
  But that one was just pure devastation
• SportsAndLady

  

  
• cbus4life

  SportsAndLady;778430 wrote:

  
  Is that blood on the bricks?
  
  Thoughts and prayers with everyone in Joplin, i can't even imagine what they're going through. God bless them.
• vball10set

  here's an article about a close family friend--thank God he made it through okay
  
  http://www.toledoblade.com/news/2011/05/24/St-John-s-grad-survives-disaster-2.html
• karen lotz

  

  cbus4life;778441 wrote:Is that blood on the bricks?
  
  Thoughts and prayers with everyone in Joplin, i can't even imagine what they're going through. God bless them.

  
  
  Yeah it is blood. This pic is on the page that was posted earlier in the thread.
• SportsAndLady

  

  Ya blood...the pictures on that link were nuts..just dead bodies lying around everywhere
• ts1227

  

  BCBulldog;778424 wrote:I think you may be referring to the one in Greensburg, KS. This one is worse in nearly every way. The only difference is that Greensburg is much smaller than Joplin and nearly all of Greensburg was destroyed.

  
  Parkersburg, IA also was hit by an EF5 the year after Greensburg.
• SportsAndLady

  

  My stupid ass ex-gf (the reason I went from sports&ladies to sports&lady) has some family in Missouri...mayyyybe i'll send her a text saying hope they're okay....
  
  
  Meh, fuck it
• Hb31187

  

  ts1227;778837 wrote:Parkersburg, IA also was hit by an EF5 the year after Greensburg.

  Nevermind, that def was the one i was talking about. That one was an EF5 and destroyed EVERYTHING.
• SportsAndLady

  

  CRAZY/sad story
  
  http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2011/05/24/2011-05-24_family_seeks_high_school_grad_will_norton_sucked_out_of_cars_sunroof_during_jopl.html?r=topnews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+nydnrss%2Fhome+%28Home%29&utm_content=Twitter
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