Joplin, Missouri, still hasn’t fully recovered from the devastating tornado that struck the city on May 22, 2011. The scale-topping EF-5 twister killed 161 people in 13 minutes as it swept through the ...

The City of Joplin is now strengthening its policy on sounding storm sirens after severe weather overnight. Sirens did not sound when a tornado touched down around midnight near West 1st Street and ...

JOPLIN, Mo. — The city of Joplin officially updates when it will sound its storm sirens. The sirens will now be sounded when the National Weather Service issues a severe thunderstorm warning with a ...

JOPLIN, Mo. (AP) – From dawn to dusk, residents who lived through the tornado that devastated Joplin, Mo., last year are remembering the storm and celebrating their survival. The storm that hit the ...

PECULIAR, Mo., May 12, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- On Friday, May 22, 2026, Operation BBQ Relief® (OBR) will return to the city where its mission began, setting up at Cunningham Park in Joplin, Mo. to ...

JOPLIN, Mo. — For Beth Trenary, May 22 is a day that life changed forever. Trenary’s mother, Wendy Istas, was one of the 161 people killed after an EF5 tornado tore through Joplin on May 22, 2011. On ...

JOPLIN, Mo. — Last night’s weather is prompting a storm shelter reminder from the Joplin School District. Pets are welcome in the district’s 13 community safe rooms. One school had nearly 80 dogs and ...

JOPLIN, Mo. (AP) There were tearful remembrances for lost classmates and jokes about spending their senior year in a converted department store. But most of all for Joplin High School's Class of 2012, ...

A disaster of the magnitude of the one that hit Joplin 15 years ago provided a wealth of information for scientists and engineers, as well as lessons for meteorologists and the public. Steve Runnels, ...