Netflix's brand-new documentary, The Twister: Caught in the Storm, captures the true story of the category EF5 tornado that hit Joplin, Missouri, in 2011. There have been a number of tornado ...

As the daily dose of severe weather continues over parts of the central United States into next week, the risk to lives and ...

Netflix’s The Twister: Caught in the Storm revisits the harrowing events of May 22, 2011, when an EF5 tornado devastated Joplin, Missouri. With winds reaching up to 200 mph, the tornado tore a ...

Despite the ASCE findings, the National Weather Service still classifies the Joplin tornado as an EF5. Immediately following the storm, the city of Joplin embarked on a journey to recover and rebuild.

The Joplin tornado touched down around 5:34 p.m., just east of the Missouri-Kansas state line, per the NIST report. Over the course of the next approximately 48 minutes, the tornado would escalate to ...