Satellite Images Of Joplin Tornado Damage

As you can see there is a large brown swath of significant damage running from the lower right to the upper left corner of the after image.

Satellite images of joplin tornado damage. Devastated the southern side of joplin becoming the costliest tornado in us history 2 95 billion. The right half of the image shows what it looked like before the tornado this past sunday and the left image shows the same area afterward. Joplin tornado damage photos. While the city has rebuilt there are still signs of the scar left behind five years later.

Images via ap modis x4 google earth x2. When you hear of a tornado warning sometimes they mean this blocks wide of total destruction crossing an entire city. Before and after aerial photos show the shocking extent of the. All of the damage has been cleared and removed leaving open lots dead grass and new roofs in what remains of the tornado s track.

Satellite images of joplin mo before and after the tornado at center is joplin high school. Use the slider below to compare the landscape before and after the tornado hit. The most recently released statistics state that at least 139 people lost their life 40 are still unaccounted for and 1 000 have suffered injuries. The tornado was rated ef 5 on the enhanced fujita scale with its maximum winds estimated at more than 200 mph.

As the tornadoes approached the oklahoma city metro thousands of residents decided to leave the area for safety possibly due to the still fresh memories of the devastation caused by the ef5 tornado that struck moore on may 20. 1581 people and injured over 1 000 in joplin missouri. The joplin tornado was the first single tornado to result in over 100 fatalities since the june 8 1953 flint michigan tornado. Following the devastating tornado which ripped though joplin at the weekend these satellite images show the extent of the damage.

An ef5 tornado up to a mile wide left a six mile long gash in the city of joplin missouri on may 22 2011. The joplin tornado took the lives of 158 people the most from a single tornado since the 1940s. On may 22 2011 a massive ef5 tornado sliced through the heart of joplin missouri leaving behind a scar six miles long and almost a mile wide. Satellite image of the oklahoma city area on june 2 displaying the ground scar left behind by the tornado.

The above are satellite photos taken over joplin.