Direct tornado hit on Joplin, MO

Very bad. Many, many casualties. Emergency services overwhelmed. Live audio feed here http://www.radioreference.com/apps/audio/?action=wp&feedId=2798

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The whole town looks to be wiped out. Explosion at the hospital. Very Bad.

Damn

Which is just north and east of Joplin in Jasper county; drove under a funnel cloud moving NE at 40 mph.



Sounds like I-44 is closed, the hospital got hit, businesses around 25th St. got hit...what a mess.

JOPLIN, Mo. | Authorities say a tornado has hit a Joplin hospital and caused the roofs of two city fire stations to collapse.

Jasper County Emergency Management Director Keith Stammer says a tornado hit the St. John’s Regional Medical Center on the city’s south side. He said there are multiple reports of injuries from the twister that struck around 6 p.m. Sunday.

There also were broadcast reports of damaged businesses and vehicles overturned on highway entrances elsewhere around or near the city.

KansasCity.com will have updates when they become available.



Read more: http://www.kansascity.com/2011/05/22/2894243/tornado-reportedly-strikes-joplin.html#ixzz1N87y5Sud

it is breaking my heart. He can't hardly report this story.

Injuries will have to go much further to get treated. not good

Duplex with no basement.

in the Twin Cities today.

Another epic tornado day?

x-rays, medical items, etc.

The weather and news people are very grim. Not only was the hospital hit, two fire stations had their roofs collapse. Huge amount of devastation.

and it had directions about what to do with the items that were scattered.

I can imagine with Medical Records it is going to be dicey...but I'm sure they would appreciate the stuff being gathered up and returned if possible.

Stay safe.

to be in basements so it's unlikely that actual medical records are flying through the air, although there's always a lot of medical record type paperwork all over any hospital at any given time.

and the actual XRAYS that he reported are also medical records.

What a horrific mess.

Another great and horrible day of tornados!

nt

but no official reports yet.

and it does not look too good.

the reports are grim

and he said "you may not want to see that"

:(

I used to live 4 blocks SE of the hospital. Duplex w/ no basement.

Neighborhoods of mostly ranch houses on slab foundations or 'crawlspace'.

I guess I've been through too many tornadoes. No way would I live in a house without a basement.

with those reinforced concrete block storm shelters.

It costs more to dig out a basement

I can't imagine this nightmare scenario. When I worked in Illinois we all had tornado drills... evacuate everyone into the hallways and close all the doors to the rooms. I always prayed this would never happen. I really feel for the staff at that hospital.

calling in all surrounding county police, nurses, doctors, the hospital was hit. Whole neighborhoods hit, smell of gas and amonia.

Just told one officer his family is okay...

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I guess the 'good' people are just collateral damage to you.

Listen, no one deserves these tragedy's no one.

Listen in to the link and understand that this is not political this is an American tragedy. The officers are stressed and doing what they can.

If I were there I would be helping to rescue would you?

Don't become the thing that you revile!!

People are dying right now!

Off of Range Line Rd., exactly due east from where the hospital stands.

That production facility operates 24/7.

I wonder if they got hit.

Some good people that work there.

HERE

I was hearing lots of references to having "J4"'s at certain locations and I wanted to find out what that meant. I believe J4 means fatality based on that web page I link to, which covers the area.

:(

PB

I used to dispatch and a 10-97-J4 means fatality. I know whenever we heard J4 that meant to roll the coroner en route to location. In this case it could be tough.

and raised there). I don't like the way spring is coming in at all. Scary, scary stuff.

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Oh my God.

This event has probably destroyed 1/4 of a City of 50,000.

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=joplin+1501+South+Range+Line+Road&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=1501+S+Range+Line+Rd,+Joplin,+Jasper,+Missouri+64804&gl=us&ll=37.061342,-94.50242&spn=0.049862,0.071669&t=h&z=14

feed for an hour or so now, and what's really amazing to me is how in the last fifteen minutes or so all of a sudden there are a lot of people wandering around, and the guy doing the live feed has not moved his location at all. At first it was just shots of empty devastation, and now people are out and about.

Those of you who recall the Greensburg, KS, tornado of May 4 2007, probably recall seeing footage of a town that was totally destroyed by a tornado that was nearly two miles wide. They're saying that this Joplin tornado was probably a mile wide. I had occasion to drive through Greensburg about once a year, sometimes more, for about five years, and I'd never paid much attention to it, until the tornado occurred. I next drove through in July just about two months after the tornado, and it looked as if it had happened two days before. The destruction that tornadoes can do is almost unbelievable, and I know from driving through Greensburg that seeing it on a TV or computer screen is nothing like actually being there.

My heart goes out to those in Joplin.

My thoughts and prayers go to those who have suffered loss through this tragedy.

I hope this thing weakens - it is headed our way (Memphis) too. I was looking at TWC and on the radar map it almost looks like a hurricane of clouds over the middle US - not good.

This is reminding me of the storms about a month ago.

God Bless Joplin,
Annette

this is what this country is all about.

:(

Just heard it.

:-(

They were trying to cordon off that area before.

:cry:

Dammit! :-(

so far :cry:

:cry: What a nightmare!
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