Photographs from The Star’s archives document the destruction, resilience and hope the community would draw on to rebuild.
The deadliest tornado in modern U.S. history devastated Joplin, Missouri, 15 years ago, causing an estimated $2.8 billion in damage, killing 161 and injuring 1,000.
Nanda Nunnelly had just come home from a weekend out of town when a massive, multi-vortex tornado ripped through Joplin, Missouri on May 22, 2011. The sky, she says, had a sickly green tinge. When the ...
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 ...
Remembering the lives lost in the 2011 Joplin tornado.
WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) – Friday marks 15 years since a deadly EF5 tornado tore through Joplin, Missouri. Former Joplin Police Chief Lane Roberts and now a Missouri state representative recalls that ...