The EF5 tornado that hit Joplin, Mo., on May 22, 2011, spent 32 minutes on the ground. In that brief period, the twister managed to inflict immense damage. The storm, which featured winds exceeding ...

An EF5 tornado up to a mile-wide left a six-mile long gash in the city of Joplin, Missouri, on May 22, 2011. While the city has rebuilt, there are still signs of the scar left behind five years later.

The monster tornado that smashed through Joplin, Mo., left a path of death and destruction in its wake, and a jagged scar across the Earth as it churned through the town of 50,000 on Sunday (May 22).

JOPLIN, Mo. -- Steven Weersing survived Joplin's 2011 tornado, but the battle to recover from a fungus that nearly killed him continues 20 months later. Weersing has a crater-like scar on the right ...