

A catastrophic tornado struck Joplin, Missouri, in 2011.

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Lauren Tarshis is the editor of Scholastic's Storyworks magazine and group editorial director for language arts for Scholastic classroom magazines, in addition to being the author of the I Survived series and the critically acclaimed novels Emma-Jean Lazarus Fell Out of a Tree and Emma-Jean Lazarus Fell in Love. Deadly Disasters: The Joplin Tornado kids book from the leading digital reading. This popular Children audio book is now available for free download or streaming on Spotify. Lauren will bring her signature intensity to this distinctly American natural disaster, placing a young boy in the middle of one of the deadliest tornado to strike the United States since 1947.

It was part of a larger tornado outbreak in the spring of that year and reached a maximum width of nearly 1 mile during its path through the southern part of the city, killing 158 people, injuring over 1,000 and caused damages amounting to a total of $2.8 billion, making it the costliest single tornado in U.S. Frank Morris of member station KCUR reports. The 2011 Joplin tornado was a catastrophic tornado that struck Joplin, Missouri in 2011. An EF5 tornado took out a third of Joplin a decade ago, and the lessons learned since then have been applied to disasters around the world. More epic tales of survival in the bestselling I Survived series. On May 22, a three-quarter-mile-wide tornado carved a six-mile-long path through Joplin, Missouri, killing 160. A decade later, we’ve come quite a long way. The tragic event spurred NIST and others into action to improve the country’s resilience to tornadoes. I SURVIVED THE JOPLIN TORNADO, 2011 - #12 In 2011, a vicious tornado wreaked havoc on the city of Joplin, Missouri.
