The Joplin Fire Department is working to restore the city's tornado sirens after their dispatch center was hit by lightning ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Joplin city officials have changed the city’s outdoor warning siren activation policy as the result of an unwarned EF1 tornado ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Today, most children in Joplin Schools have no direct memory of the May 22, 2011, tornado, it having happened before they were ...

Relief efforts are under way after an EF5 tornado struck Joplin, Mo., early Sunday, claiming at least 123 lives and leveling thousands of homes. Jeff Nene, senior director of public relations at ...

JOPLIN, Missouri – It's been 15 years since the deadliest tornado in modern history ripped through Joplin, devastating the city of 50,000 in southwest Missouri. On May 22, 2011, an extremely dangerous ...

One evening in May of 2011, tornado sirens went off in a small Missouri city called Joplin. Thousands of homes were destroyed ...

From the producers of "Dateline," NBC's new series "Survival Mode" will give viewers an inside look at some of the largest and most recent disasters through accounts from those who lived through them.

The remains of a truck is wrapped around a tree as Kayla McMinn gathers belongings on Vermont Avenue, near 18th Street, on Monday afternoon, May 23, 2011, a day after Joplin, Mo., was hit by a tornado ...