Joplin Tornado

Joplin, Missouri, is little town that nearly got destroyed by an EF5 tornado on May 22, 2011. Joplin got hit by an extremely dangerous tornado, an EF5 tornado, a very powerful tornado. To this day, the city of Joplin is still recovering. Joplin is a city in southwest Missouri near the Kansas boarder, west of Springfield. It was founded in 1839. The city’s motto is “Proud of Our Past….Shaping Our Future”. Joplin is the largest city in Jasper County, although it is not the county seat. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 50,150. The population in 2011 estimates the city at 50,559. Joplin is named after Reverend Harris Joplin, an early settler and founder of the area’s first Methodist congregation. In the 19th century, lead was discovered in the Joplin Creek Valley before the Civil War, but it was only after the war that significant development took place. On May 6, 1971, Joplin was struck by a severe tornado, resulting in one death and 50 injuries, along with major damages to many houses and businesses.
The environmental conditions in Joplin are humid subtropical climate, with mild to cold winters and hot, humid summers. Joplin is situated in “Tornado Alley,” a broad region where cold air from Canada collides with warm, moist air from the Gulf of Mexico, and dry air from the Rocky Mountains, leading to the formation of powerful super cell thunderstorms from which tornados can and may spawn from. The disaster aftermath and impact of the tornado is the following of the massive tornado that killed over 132 people and damaged many houses, experts speculate that the danger is far from being over due to a possible contamination of water and air from industrial debris. Many industrial and commercial setups were destroyed and a large fire burned for hours near the St. John’s Regional Medical Center. Heavy rain in the region caused flash flooding, possibly fouling local waterways. The mulit-vortex tornado, has been in fact, categorized as the