The Joplin tornado is the deadliest single tornado. Following a succession of temporary structures, the hospital reopened in a new location in. On May 22nd, an EF-5 tornado devastated the city of Joplin, Mo., leaving an estimated 157 people dead. The original storm-ravaged building was demolished in 2013.

The hospital is famous for suffering devastating damage in the 2011 Joplin tornado. In the early evening of Sunday, May 22, 2011, Joplin was hit by a multi-vortex F5 storm packing winds later estimated to have reached 200 miles per hour. Johns Regional Medical Center, is a hospital in. An EF-5 tornado tore through much of the city on May 22, 2011, damaging a hospital and hundreds of homes and businesses. Listen below to Newstalk KZRG’s five-part segment made on the ten-year anniversary of the tornado:īelow is just a few minutes of our coverage that day as it happened. The Joplin tornado, moving roughly west to east, cut a 6-mile-long path through a densely populated are and was up to a mile wide in some places. Mercy Hospital Joplin, formerly known as St. A sign is seen in a devastated neighborhood in Joplin, Mo., May 25, 2011. It damaged 553 business structures and nearly 7,500 residential structures over 3,000 of those residences were heavily damaged or completely destroyed.

The damage made this the costliest tornado on record as well, with losses approaching $3 billion. The Joplin tornado, moving roughly west to east, cut a 6-mile-long path through a densely populated are and was up to a mile wide in some places.

The May 22, 2011, Joplin tornado, caused 161 fatalities and more than 1,000 injuries, making it the deadliest single tornado on record in the U.S.