11-21-2014
The 2011 Joplin tornado resulted in the death of 162 people. Now, you know who to blame.
2011 Joplin tornado
EF5 tornado
Date:May 22, 2011
Time : 5:34–6:12 pm CDT (UTC−05:00)
Casualties: 158 fatalities (+4 indirect), 1,150 injuries[1][2][3][4]
Damages: $2.8 billion (2011 USD)
$2.94 billion (2014 USD[5])
Areas affected: Jasper County and Newton County, Missouri; mostly the city of Joplin (part of a larger outbreak)
The 2011 Joplin tornado was a catastrophic EF5 multiple-vortex tornado that struck Joplin, Missouri, late in the afternoon of Sunday, May 22, 2011. It was part of a larger late-May tornado outbreak and reached a maximum width of nearly 1 mile (1.6 km) during its path through the southern part of the city.[6] It rapidly intensified and tracked eastward across the city, and then continued eastward across Interstate 44 into rural portions of Jasper County and Newton County.[7] It was the third tornado to strike Joplin since May 1971.[8]
Overall, the tornado killed 158 people (with an additional four indirect deaths), injured some 1,150 others, and caused damages amounting to a total of $2.8 billion. It was the deadliest tornado to strike the United States since the 1947 Glazier-Higgins-Woodward tornadoes, and the seventh-deadliest overall. It also ranks as the costliest single tornado in U.S. history.
In a preliminary estimate, the insurance payout was expected to be $2.2 billion; the highest insurance payout in Missouri history, higher than the previous record of $2 billion in the April 10, 2001 hail storm, which is considered the costliest hail storm in history as it swept along the I-70 corridor from Kansas to Illinois.[9] Estimates earlier stated Joplin damage could be $3 billion. By July 15, 2011, there had been 16,656 insurance claims.[10]"
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