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Final Paper Joplin Missouri, Tornado May 22, 2011 5:15 pm in Joplin Missouri, a Tornado warning warned residents that there was a tornado in the area. 19 minute when by and people heard nothing and decided that the warning was over and had passed over them or touched down in another area, that they started come out of there shelter and areas protesting them from a tornado. This was a wrong move for all those who took this chance. This tornado was unlike anything Joplin or the surrounding areas had ever seen since 1947. This tornado took 19 minutes to touch ground and when It did it was one of the biggest and longest lasting tornados ever recorded. The EF5 tornado reached wind speeds of 200250mph, this was a multiple-vortex tornado in excess of 1 mile (1.6 km) wide and spent 38 minutes on the ground. Casualties that his EF5 tornado claimed the lives of 161 people and left over 1,000 injured, which is the deadliest tornado in America since 1947. The damages estimated $2.8-3 Billion dollars. By July 15, 2011 the insurance claims were as many as 16,656 claims. Just east of the kanas state Line near the end of 32nd Street at 5:34 pm the tornado touched down and start at a doing minor damage to rural areas, roof tops and the usual uprooted trees. Near twin hills country club which is the southwest end of Joplin the tornado was rated at a EF2 or EF3 taking total roof off houses and doing moderate damages.

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5:41pm just five minutes on the grounds the tornado enter a very populated part of the Joplin where damage became catastrophic and widespread as it hit the southwest residential subdivisions of Joplin. This is where the tornado in countered the St. Johns Regional Medical Center which was heavily damaged with all windows blown out but the foundation of the building made it through the tornado but shifted slightly off its foundation. The area nearby was as lucky as the hospital. Nearly every residential home on McClelland Boulevard and 26th street was flattened and swept right off their foundations. The tornado at this time was rated at EF5 with winds between 200-250 mph. Nursing homes, churches and several school where flatten, destroyed or heavily damaged by the EF5 force storm. The Tornado turned eastward and intensified as it crossed main street between 20th and 26th street, it barely missing downtown many business and institutional buildings where again destroyed or heavily damaged. Next it took out 2 apartment complexes and as well as the Franklin Technology Center then it found it way to the Joplin High school all was destroyed. School was not in session but 3 miles away graduation was taking place while the tornado flattened the High School, then near the end of 20th street the tornado ended its EF5 rain of destruction. The tornado downsized and to EF4 as it continued it path of destruction. Finally traveling toward s Interstate 44 where it finally weakened but still was able to flip mangle vehicles near the U.S. Route 71 interchange. At 6:12pm just east of Diamond the tornado finally lifted and was

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over. From start to finish the Tornado was track to in length of 22.1 miles long and nothing but destruction left behind in from its path. Below is a picture of impacted area of Joplin Missouri.

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Images above are of the St. Johns Regional Medical Center with helicopter destroyed. 1000s of people didnt know where to go after so they all when to get help at the hospital found it at least still standing. The Picture to the right of it is just a neighborhood that the tornado flattened. And the bottom pic shows the path of the tornado from start to finish.

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The image on the storm relative Springfield, site of the Joplin, May 22, 2011 time). Green indicate wind site (located 60

below shows de-aliased velocity from the Missouri NEXRAD radar Missouri tornado Sunday 22:43 GMT (5:43 pm local colors (negative values) moving towards the radar miles [97km] to the east),

and red colors (positive values) indicate winds moving away from the radar site. The tight couplet of reds and greens over southern Joplin show the strong rotation occurring within the EF5 tornado. The large scale green and red couplet indicates the larger scale rotation occurring within the supercell thunderstorm. (http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/special-reports/2011-springextremes/index.php. mailto:Jesse.Enloe@noaa.gov. Last Updated Monday, 9-Apr-2012 10:50:29 EDT by Jesse.Enloe@noaa.gov)

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My analysis of May 22, 2011 in what was left of Joplin Missouri and surrounding area this tornado touched and damaged It Catastrophe Disaster. The Human beings that were affected by this monster is unimaginable. I watch some of the videos that were posted on line with all the pictures and the videos are nothing less than heart breaking. You can see normal gas stations at the first of the video then the tornado must have beard down on the gas station cause everything goes dark and the video is nothing but sound, and the screamed of fear or for loved ones mostly for Jesus. It really brings a tear to your eyes as you listen to the hell these people go with for 38 minutes. It must have been a lifetime to them. You can hear the winds of the tornado in and everything that the wind in carrying in the air slam throw the station the winds are howling and just an scary but at the same moment its amazing to hear what its like to experience the middle of such a HUGE disaster. This event was forecasted, and predicted 19 minute before it touched down. Which really was a good and very bad thing? Good because most everyone went to safe shelter and places they could hide and be safe, but and here is the bad part, after 10 to 15 minutes of being in the shelter and no sounds of rushing wind, or the normal hail storms never started beating the roofs, the people thinking the tornado wouldnt pass their way, especially if it hadnt passing through after 15 minute after the first warning, started coming out of their safe protection and shelters right in time for the tornado to touch down and kill and injure the unsuspecting residents of Joplin. So it was effective for those whose lives were saved, but for the lives lost it was too soon to forecast the warning, especially with this most unusual Disaster.

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The tornado was so huge that when the tornado finally lifted, people were so confused and in shock to what just happened, that when they came out of there shelters the destructions that was cause left nothing standing and their lives all in shredders spread up for miles. The injured were in shock and said that when they first looked out across Joplin they couldnt even tell which way was which cause no land marks stood anywhere it was like a war zone and nothing was left, they had no clue what to do but just stand there and look around, and try to help search for others under the rubble. Quoted by the Fire Chief Mitch Randles while at the helm of disaster mitigation and rebuilding. "We're slowly getting back to the new normal," Randles said. "It will never be the same as it was before. The tornado took out two of the five stations that serve the community, destroyed three engines and two brush trucks and has put the brakes on construction of a sixth station. Its taken all of his energy to manage the immediate life safety issues and salvage operations and now, he's consumed with decisions about rebuilding and apparatus replacement. I don't want to be the one that perpetuates the nightmare," Randles said. "The decisions I make today about station placement and design will affect the department for 50 years to come. I need to be thoughtful and not make rush decisions. It's going to take a long time to recover. Even the decisions about apparatus replacement are important as Randles said his trucks are usually in service for 25 years. Manufacturers like Rosenbauer lent the city a pumper and Pierce Manufacturing donated two engines for the city to use. Randles said he could place an order for demonstrator apparatus and take engines built on speculation, but he's not certain that's the best decision in the long run.

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It's a lot of weight on his shoulders, but Randles said he's up to the task. He's got a great team, he said, but he ultimately has to make the executive decisions as the chief. He had a Saturday off recently, but the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers needed to talk to the top guy to figure out where and how to erect temporary quarters for the staff and apparatus of the two destroyed stations."We've got firefighters in RVs and we've got to get them in something better than that," the chief said. "We've got some really hot weather that came in after the tornado and we need to do better than the RVs."(ED BALLAM/EMSWORLD.COMNEWSJUNE 14, 2011. http://www.emsworld.com/news/10335727/joplin-chief-recounts-tornado-recovery?page=2) The only thing that came out of that horrible day is now days Joplin has sat up a ALERT CENTER and has a better communication technology for their future warning system. They say arent who they uses to be but they are a new found strength of community they all share between each other. Someone said they just take a deep breath and keep moving forward.

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Work Cited (http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/special-reports/2011-spring-extremes/index.php. mailto:Jesse.Enloe@noaa.gov. Last Updated Monday, 9-Apr-2012 10:50:29 EDT by Jesse.Enloe@noaa.gov) http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a3/Joplin-tornado-map.jpg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_2011_tornado_outbreak /-Cthqo5hs2Y/TdqjWNo3urI/AAAAAAAASDU/H2NjKtH9g0E/s400/%2525210_2011_0522_Jopli nMO_TornadoDamage_09.jpg http://apps.startribune.com/blogs/user_images/joplindamage.jpg ."( ED BALLAM/EMSWORLD.COMNEWSJUNE 14, 2011. http://www.emsworld.com/news/10335727/joplin-chief-recounts-tornado-recovery?page=2)