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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.
There were 40 tornadoes with deaths at schools (234 deaths) before 1953 and 6 events (52 deaths) after that year (not including the probable downburst in New York). Two high fatality events after 1953 occurred in Mississippi (23 in 1955) and Illinois (13 in 1967); accounting for 82% of 1952–2006 deaths, both from violent class tornadoes.
Gloucester County also has two middle schools that start at 7:45 am with homeroom and end at 2:46 pm. The schools' names are Peasley (), and Page ().[7] [8] On April 16, 2011, part of Page Middle School was destroyed by a tornado that passed through the area.
Volunteers distribute water and other supplies to impacted families at Randolph Howell Elementary School, now a tornado recovery hub, located less than a mile from where an EF-3 tornado hit on ...
It was the culmination of a four-year journey Friday as students and staff returned to West Wilson Middle School in Mt. Juliet for the first time since an EF-3 tornado destroyed the building in ...
Part of the tornado outbreaks of 2012 and 2011–12 North American winter. On March 2 and 3, 2012, a deadly tornado outbreak occurred over a large section of the Southern United States into the Ohio Valley region. The storms resulted in 41 tornado-related fatalities, 22 of which occurred in Kentucky. [2] Tornado-related deaths also occurred in ...
From May 21 to May 26, 2011, one of the largest tornado outbreaks on record affected the Midwestern and Southern regions of the United States. A six-day tornado outbreak sequence, most of the tornadoes developed in a corridor from Lake Superior southwest to central Texas, while isolated tornadoes occurred in other areas.
Looking south-west, the Dallas North Tollway is visible across the middle, and Dallas Love Field Airport is in the distance. The tornado travelled from top-right to bottom-left in this photo. At 8:58 p.m. CDT on October 20, a tornado began in Dallas County, Texas, near the interaction of Spur 348 and Luna Road