Early in the afternoon of May 22, 2011, meteorologists knew a serious weather situation was developing near Joplin, Missouri. By nightfall, 158 souls were gone as a killer EF-5 mile-wide twister had carved a massive path of destruction straight through the heart of the city.
There are some very scientific ways to measure the strength of a tornado. A new ranking attempts to combine some major factors to determine the strongest twisters Missouri has seen in the past decade. The biggest of them all was a 1,800 foot wide beast.
It's a fascinating sight, but I'm not certain that I'd like to be the person seeing it. New video shows a spinning funnel cloud over Illinois and the viewpoint is straight up into the whirling vortex.
A destructive line of thunderstorms produced tornadoes including a wedge twister that damaged many buildings near Trenton, Missouri including a 130-year-old historic church.
Many universities around America have urban legends about tunnels. That's certainly the case with Southeast Missouri State University in Cape Girardeau.
It was the summer of 1992 when one of Missouri's biggest mysteries began. 3 women in Springfield, Missouri vanished and have never been seen since and no one knows why.