‘The Twister’ commemorates victims of Joplin Tornado
Neosho Daily News
Saturday marks the 10th anniversary of the EF-5 Tornado that tore through Joplin, causing 161 deaths in the single deadliest tornado on record in the United States since official records were stared in 1950.
According to the National Institute of Standards and Technology, a part of the U.S. Department of Commerce, the damage to the built environment approached $3 billion, making it the costliest tornado on record as well.
Shortly after the tornado in 2011, Theo Mason, an Arkansas native who grew up in Noel, witnessed the destruction firsthand while working with his healthcare job that had him go to homes in Joplin.