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VIDEO: Joplin’s F-5 tornado

Posted 23 May 2011 in disaster

Someone caught in a Fastrip convenience store in Joplin, MO managed to make a homemade video while the tornado hit yesterday. The majority of the video is pretty dark, but from the dialogue you can get a sense of the frightening severity of the storm. Things get really bad around the 2:14 mark where the store windows get violently sucked out by the storm and the scared folks huddled in the store for shelter are forced to retreat to the walk-in cooler for safety.

A stormchaser managed to capture a glimpse of the F-5 tornado from a distance:

ABC news is reporting that this was America’s deadliest tornado in 60 years.

Joplin's F-5 tornado cut the city in half, killed over 90 people

The death toll in Joplin, Mo., rose to 90 today as officials described the monster tornado that hit the city as a “once in a generation event.”

Meteoroligcal records show that this was the deadliest tornado since 1953 when a twister hit Worcester, Mass., and caused 90 fatalities.

Rescuers shifted through rubble today looking for survivors as high winds and hail continues to plague the area.

The tornado blasted a four mile wide path through the city and left trapped survivors crying out for help this morning.

“You see pictures of World War II, the devastation and all that with the bombing. That’s really what it looked like,” Kerry Sachetta, the principal of Joplin High School, which was mangled by the tornado. “I couldn’t even make out the side of the building. It was total devastation in my view. I just couldn’t believe what I saw.”

Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon declared a state of emergency Sunday evening and activated the Missouri National Guard in response to the destruction.

…In the city of about 50,000 people 160 miles south of Kansas City, the tornado was reported to be a mile wide, with winds of nearly 200 mph that ravaged the area.

Please help the victims of the Joplin, Missouri tornado. Here is a list of organizations.

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