The real account of what children described encountering during the 2011 Joplin tornado — one of the deadliest tornadoes in American history — is far stranger than this viral rumor.On the evening of May 22, 2011, an EF5 tornado (the highest on the scale used to estimate tornado intensity) carved a 22-mile path through Joplin, Missouri, killing 161 people, injuring more than 1,000, and destroying over 7,000 homes and buildings, according to the N…
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