Joplin, MO: I think the tornado tore through the city WSW to ENE

[krispos42]

From what I'm hearing on the scanner, it sounds like the monster tornado was moving on a course of about 60° or so.







We know St. John's hospital was wrecked (bottom left), and the police and fire personnel are referring to Wal-Mart, Home Depot, and the Joplin High School in the past tense.



Shit, this is bad.



If the tornado was a mile wide, that's about 3 hash marks on the scale on the bottom left of the picture.

[Odin2005]

1. OMG!!!

[RandomThoughts]

2. St Johns and Wallmart.

Shared hardship it seems.


Hopefully there will be shared benefit as many help the many areas in hardship.

[Rhiannon12866]

15. There appears to be nothing left of the Wal-Mart.

I'd like to think it was closed on a Sunday, but the one in my town is open 24 hours. ;(

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=439&topic_id=1155622&mesg_id=1155622

[proud2BlibKansan]

3. Just horrific

They're talking about finding bodies on the scanner now: http://www.radioreference.com/apps/audio/?action=wp&feedId=2798

[krispos42]

4. I heard one more just a minute ago. They call them "J4s", I think

:-(

[proud2BlibKansan]

6. Yes

There's another term also. And they keep talking about 20s. What's that?

[krispos42]

9. 10-20 is common slang for a location

often referred to as a "twenty", as in, "proud2BlibKansan, what's your 20?"

[proud2BlibKansan]

11. I know that. it sounded like they were using a different meaning

[krispos42]

14. Oh, okay

:hi:

[Lars39]

5. I briefly heard that its path was 1 mile wide, 3 miles long.

[KittyWampus]

7. Please understand, but I hope you are wrong. It will be a long night for so many.

[Lars39]

8. I hope so too.

I only heard it once on TWC. Just horrified at the thought.

[proud2BlibKansan]

12. Our local media is reporting a mile wide

[Strelnikov_]

10. West end probably farther north

The weather channel guy was just north of the hospital, and noted at some point the hospital probably was on the edge. When they panned the camera north, devastation as far as one could see.

Looks like it was a nearly E-W track.

[krispos42]

13. That would put the high school dead center in the storm

Yikes!

[Strelnikov_]

16. Springfield MO paper reports Hampshire Terrace Apt. complex leveled, 150 units

At the (A) on the map. Pretty much dead center.

http://maps.google.com/maps?oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&ie=UTF8&q=2021+Hampshire+Ter,+Joplin,+MO+64804&fb=1&gl=us&hnear=0x87ee99a4c1611ee7:0x710028512691e4b2,Des+Moines,+IA&cid=0,0,12912916489772654793&ll=37.068619,-94.498494&spn=0.012396,0.017917&t=h&z=16

[aquart]

17. That's not good.

[bdamomma]

18. these tornados are horrible

a mile wide??? that was the case in the South too wasn't it? horrible loss of life.