Seven thousand homes were severely damaged or destroyed and another 900 damaged. John���s Hospital building structure was compromised. Other factors in the rating included damage to reinforced concrete structures, and that St. Parking stops weighing over 300 pounds and re-barred into asphalt were uprooted and tossed. The EF-5 rating (greater than 200 mph wind speeds) was mainly arrived at by the total destruction of vehicles, including some vehicles tossed several blocks and semi trucks thrown a quarter of a mile. Over 10,200 people filed for disaster assistance following the tornado. Equally, a 56 year old man who had been included as a direct fatality was later determined to have died of a heart attack. Sadly, on May 24 a police officer who was volunteering from another department, was struck by lightning while serving in the response efforts and later died. The tornado killed 158 directly, three indirectly, and injured over 1150 people. The tornado had a maximum width of one mile and an overall path length of nearly 21.6 miles, nearly nine miles of which occurred in Jasper County. ![]() Maximum winds were estimated to have exceeded 200 miles per hour. National Weather Service survey teams rated the tornado that tracked across the southwest through east central portion of Joplin, Missouri, as an EF5 tornado. Several large trees were toppled before the tornado crossed into Jasper County and portions of south Joplin. This tornado started in the very extreme northern portions of Newton County initially touching down one half mile southwest of the intersection of JJ Highway and Newton Road in Newton County. This is the beginning of the EF-5 tornado that impacted a large portion of the city of Joplin. ![]() National Centers for Environmental Information reports:
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