In today’s modern rate, it would have been about a billion dollars worth of damage. At the time, it was the costliest tornado in history. Now it’s the Joplin tornado, which caused $3 billion worth of ...

Storm chaser Dr. Jason Persoff shares his tornado chasing adventures and reflects on Joplin, MO tornado.

On May 22, 2011, an EF5 tornado -- which has the strength to tear buildings from foundations -- blasted through Joplin, Missouri. The tornado lasted for 32 minutes and stretched to one mile.

Good Morning our Furry Friends! On today’s Pick of the Litter, we get to meet Lucien! Lucien, is a wonderful pup who is super ...

Winds of up 70 miles per hour and possible tornadoes lashed Southwest Missouri on Tuesday morning, leaving trails of debris and thousands without power from Joplin to Springfield and south into ...

The National Weather Service has confirmed that a brief tornado touch down on the southeast side of Belle Terre playground in Marrero and tracked northeast. A shed was flipped near the starting ...

It took Joplin Area Catholic Schools students two rounds of voting Thursday to elect Cardinal Reinhard Marx, archbishop of Munich and Freising, the next pope of the Catholic Church. The ballot was ...

Regular readers of this blog---all 14 of you—recall my recollections of this disaster in previous blogs. But, a half-century ...

A tornado spotted at 5:42 p.m. Saturday has touched down in DeBaca County 11 miles south of Fort Sumner.The tornado warning is expected to expire by 6:15 p.m The tornado is in a mostly uninhabited ...

But one historic storm on May 22, 2011, struck the heart of the city of Joplin, Missouri, with devastating consequences. 158 people died in the EF-5 tornado after it tore through the southern half ...

When one thinks of “Me And Bobby McGee”, one thinks of the incomparable Janis Joplin. The iconic vocalist who defined the 1960s didn’t get to see all the love she got from her version of the ...