this is just breaking news--people are trapped in vehicles and structures. full death toll not yet known.
"I would say 75% of the town is virtually gone," said Kathy Dennis of the American Red Cross.
NBC-KSHB
Posted: 05/22/2011
Last Updated: 4 minutes ago
JOPLIN, Missouri - A major tornado caused massive damage in Joplin, Mo. Sunday afternoon, leveling buildings, killing dozens and leaving heavy damage to many standing structures.
According to the Springfield News-Leader, at least 24 people have died from the tornado.
The tornado caused widespread damage to the city when it struck the town around 6 p.m.
St. John's Regional Medical Center sustained major damage. There were reports of fires throughout the building and fears of an explosion occurring due to broken gas lines.
Many businesses were destroyed and power lines are down throughout the city.
Resources are being mobilized to assist the residents of Joplin. The Kansas City Fire Department is sending crews to Joplin to assist in search-and-rescue efforts. Volunteers from the Kansas City chapter of the Salvation Army are also heading to city. Around 9:20 p.m., it was announced that the Missouri Governor Jay Nixon was deploying the Missouri National Guard to the area.
patients are being evacuated from medical center:
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They don't evacuate for tornadoes like they do for floods. No telling where a tornado will crop up or travel.
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(05-23-2011, 05:31 PM)Cracker Wrote: Damn. Hate it for those folks.
They don't evacuate for tornadoes like they do for floods. No telling where a tornado will crop up or travel.
Yep, usually the tornado warning sirens go off only 15 to 30 minutes before the tornado strikes. Leaving not much time to evacuate, except to the basement.
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(05-23-2011, 05:31 PM)Cracker Wrote: Damn. Hate it for those folks.They don't evacuate for tornadoes like they do for floods. No telling where a tornado will crop up or travel.
Yep, usually the tornado warning sirens go off only 15 to 30 minutes before the tornado strikes. Leaving not much time to evacuate, except to the basement.
The hospital employees were told they had 20 minutes to evacuate and secure the safety of the patients. The tornado arrived in 5 minutes.
I fell asleep watching video clips of the destruction. It really does look like a bomb went off, even the bark was torn off trees. I heard a man say he thought he was going to be sucked up his chimney. We've had tornadoes go by us & it's the scariest shit ever. Strangely enough I don't worry about dying, I worry about all my "stuff" and the animals, I don't want to have to start over, nonono.
floods, tornadoes, maybe it was the Apocalypse.
i thought Miami environs signaled the end of the world after Hurricane Andrew. my heart goes out to those who have lost everything. including their lives and loved ones.
While I have sympathy & compassion for all involved seeing the elderly looking lost & confused really makes me so sad for them. Their entire life has been reduced to rubble.
heaven help those people. 126 dead, many missing and they are at this moment under another tornado warning! the pictures i have viewed on CNN are heartbreaking.
you probably know this Cars:
A storm advancing from the south set off tornado sirens in and around Kansas City, Missouri, on Wednesday. At least two weak tornadoes touched down in or near the suburbs of Overland Park and Harrisonville, but there were no immediate reports of injuries or significant damage,
This poor kid was coming home from high school graduation. I hope they find him alive and well.......
Family seeks high school grad Will Norton sucked out of car's sunroof during Joplin tornado
A Joplin family is pleading for help in finding a new high school grad who they say was sucked out of his car by the deadly weekend twister that killed 118 people.
Will Norton was on his way home with his father after getting his diploma from Joplin High School when the tornado struck the Missouri city, his family told CBS News Tuesday.
The 18-year-old and his dad, Mark, were racing to get home as the twister barreled down on them, Will Norton's sister Sara said on the "Early Show."
"We left about five minutes before them," she said. "We barely made it in the garage."
Mark called his daughter while they were on the road, and was on the phone with her when they were caught up in the twister.
"He was telling my brother, 'Pull over, pull over,' " Sara said. "I heard the tornado whipping them around. I had a feeling they were flipping around in the air. It was just really scary."
The Hummer H3 was crushed by the tornado when family members reached it, just a short distance from their house.
"They had to cut Mark out of it," said Tracey Presslor, Will Norton's aunt.
Will was nowhere to be found.
Sara said her father, who suffered several broken bones and a head injury, told them he fought to save the teen.
"He said he had his arms around Will when they started flipping, and Will's seat belt snapped and he flew through the sunroof," she said.
The family has been desperately struggling to find him ever since. They received news that he may have been alive at a hospital in Joplin, but that he was later moved.
"We heard that he was checked into the hospital, he was alive," Presslor told Anderson Cooper on CNN, adding that he was later transferred and they had received no word about him since.
The family has set up a Facebook page, Help Find Will Norton, along with a phone number - (757) 751-9455 - in hopes of getting more information
JOPLIN, MO. - First they found his dark blue teddy bear. Then frantic relatives searching for toddler Skyular Logsdon spotted his red T-shirt and pants, torn, rain-soaked and wrapped around a telephone pole.
The little boy hasn't been seen since Sunday night when a massive tornado ripped through the center of Joplin, Mo., killing at least 123 people and leaving many more missing.
As search teams took advantage of a break in the bad weather on Tuesday to look for survivors under mountains of wreckage, Skyular's relatives carefully lifted up the wooden beams and twisted metal of what was once his home.
They prayed for signs of life from the boy, who was about 15 months old. His injured parents are in hospital.
"We have searched every morgue, every hospital, every place we can think of," said Rusty Burton, a stepgrandfather to Skyular. "I looked at every piece of this house I could."
The discovery of the young boy's clothes on the telephone pole nearly 180 meters away was gut-wrenching.
"It's all torn up. I don't want him to have been wearing this," said relative Pamela Tate, sobbing as she gripped the wet, tiny clothes. "All I want is for him to be alive. That is all I want."
edit to add: Joplin, Mo. — Authorities have identified the body of a toddler.
His mother, Carol Jo Tate, told the Associated Press on Wednesday that the body of 16-month-old Skyular Logsdon was identified at the morgue handling tornado victims in this southwestern Missouri town.
(CNN) -- A 3-year-old lost in the ferocious storm that swept through Oklahoma Tuesday night was found dead Thursday morning, authorities said.
The body of Ryan Hamil was found floating in a lake.
The search for him in Canadian County and his family's anguish drew worldwide attention. Ryan's younger brother, 15-month-old Cole, died in the storm as well. His older sister Cathleen survived, as did his mother, Catherine Hamil, who is pregnant.
"I lost both of my boys," said Ryan's father, Hank Hamil, crying before cameras at a news conference Thursday morning.
"Ryan was my little buddy. Cole was too. I loved them both," he said.
They unfortunately found Will Norton last night deceased. They are going to hold a press conference at 2 pm CST... i was hoping (holding on to a small hope) that they would find him alive in a hospital as unidentified... There are just so many sad stories in this tornado disaster, as there are in many natural disasters. This one is just tugging at my heart strings.
LC they were holding a news conference on Will Norton but i can't seem to find it. Is there anything you can find or anyone else? I am not finding anything.
(05-28-2011, 05:09 PM)heartbreaker6713 Wrote: LC they were holding a news conference on Will Norton but i can't seem to find it. Is there anything you can find or anyone else? I am not finding anything.
Thank you that gave more information than some of the stories i had read. I will be intersted to find the news conference, whenever it is released. That picture of the hail is bone chilling... can't imagine being outside and getting hit by that alone regardless of everything else going on.... all of the stories are heartbreaking. I lived in Lousianna (this was when i was young)when a tornado hit our neighborhood and missed my house but did damage to many of our neighbors and afterwards i remember we drove around looking at the destruction. i can remember the images, it's not something that goes away.
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