Severe thunderstorms featuring extremely large hail will continue to be relentless in the coming days. Tornadoes are also another prime concern for portions of the Plains and later the Midwest, ...

Note: This video is from May 2011. JOPLIN, Mo. – Almost 14 years after the deadly EF5 tornado tore through Joplin, Missouri, Netflix released a documentary Wednesday highlighting the immense ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

EF0 is the weakest, going up in severity until it reaches EF5 - which is the ranking of the Joplin tornado. As well as getting an EF ranking based on damage, the scale also looks at wind speeds.

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 ...