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The storm that leveled churches, businesses and schools with winds up to 198 mph.\n\u003c/h1\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='rp-actions'\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='mr-1'\u003e\n\u003ca class=\"btn btn-success\" data-posthog-event=\"Signup: LP Signup Activity\" data-posthog-location=\"body_link_boclips\" data-remote=\"true\" href=\"/subscription/new\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGet Free Access\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"\"\u003e for 10 Days\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e!\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='rp-body'\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='rp-info'\u003e\n\u003cdiv aria-label='Hide resource details' class='rp-hide-info' role='button' tabindex='0'\u003e\u0026times;\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003ci aria-label='Expand resource details' class='rp-expand-info fai fa-solid fa-up-right-and-down-left-from-center' role='button' tabindex='0'\u003e\u003c/i\u003e\n\u003ci aria-label='Compress resource details' class='rp-compress-info fai fa-solid fa-down-left-and-up-right-to-center' role='button' tabindex='0'\u003e\u003c/i\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='rp-rating'\u003e\n\u003cspan class='resource-pool'\u003e\n\u003cspan class='pool-label'\u003ePublisher:\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='pool-name'\u003e\n\u003cspan class='text'\u003e\u003ca data-publisher-id=\"30356011\" href=\"/search?publisher_ids%5B%5D=30356011\"\u003eCurated Video\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='rp-description'\u003e\n\u003cspan class='short-description'\u003eHEADLINE: Sights \u0026amp; Sounds: Joplin Tornado DevastationCAPTION: The tornado that destroyed a broad swath of Joplin Sunday is one of the deadliest to hit Missouri in more than a century. The storm leveled churches, businesses and...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eHEADLINE: Sights \u0026amp; Sounds: Joplin Tornado Devastation\u003cbr/\u003eCAPTION: The tornado that destroyed a broad swath of Joplin Sunday is one of the deadliest to hit Missouri in more than a century. The storm leveled churches, businesses and schools with winds up to 198 mph. (May 23)\u003cbr/\u003e   JOPLIN, Mo. (AP) _ Rescue crews dug through piles of splintered houses and crushed cars Monday in a search for victims of a half-mile-wide tornado that blasted much of this Missouri town off the map and slammed straight into its hospital.\u003cbr/\u003e   At least 116 people died, making it the nation's deadliest single tornado in nearly 60 years and the second major tornado disaster in a month. An unknown number of people were hurt.\u003cbr/\u003e   Authorities feared the toll could rise as the full scope of the destruction comes into view: House after house reduced to slabs, cars crushed like soda cans, shaken residents roaming streets in search of missing family members. And the danger was by no means over. Fires from gas leaks burned across town, and more violent weather loomed, including the threat of hail, high winds and even more tornadoes.\u003cbr/\u003e   At daybreak, the city's south side emerged from darkness as a barren, smoky wasteland.\u003cbr/\u003e   \"I've never seen such devastation _ just block upon block upon block of homes just completely gone,\" said former state legislator Gary Burton who showed up to help at a volunteer center at Missouri Southern State University.\u003cbr/\u003e   It was the nation's deadliest tornado since a June 1953 twister in Flint, Mich., and authorities were prepared to find more bodies in the rubble throughout Joplin, a gritty, blue-collar town of 50,000 people about 160 miles south of Kansas City.\u003cbr/\u003e   Despite the grim outlook, Gov. Jay Nixon said he was \"optimistic that there are still lives out there to be saved.\" \u003cbr/\u003e   While many residents had 10 to 17 minutes of warning, rain and hail may have drowned out the sirens.\u003cbr/\u003e   Larry Bruffy said he heard the first warning but looked out from his garage and saw nothing. \"Five minutes later, the second warning went off,\" he said. \"By the time we tried to get under the house, it already went over us.\"\u003cbr/\u003e   As rescuers toiled in the debris, a strong thunderstorm lashed the crippled city. Rescue crews had to move gingerly around downed power lines and jagged chunks of debris as they hunted for victims and hoped for survivors. Fires, gas fumes and unstable buildings posed constant threats.\u003cbr/\u003e   Teams of searchers fanned out in waves across several square miles. Many of the groups included specially trained dogs. The teams went door to door, making quick checks of property that in many places had been stripped to its foundations or had its walls collapse.\u003cbr/\u003e   National Weather Service Director Jack Hayes said the storm was given a preliminary label as an EF4 _ the second-highest rating given to twisters. The rating is assigned to storms based on the damage they cause. Hayes said the storm had winds of 190 to 198 mph. At times, it was three-quarters of a mile wide.\u003cbr/\u003e   Some of the most startling damage was at St. John's Regional Medical Center, where staff had only moments to hustle their patients into the hallway. Five patients died there, although it was not clear if they were patients or staff members.\u003cbr/\u003e   The storm blew out hundreds of windows and caused damage so extensive that doctors had to abandon the hospital after the twister had passed. A crumpled helicopter lay on its side in the parking lot near a single twisted mass of metal that used to be cars. \u003cbr/\u003e   Dr. Jim Roscoe, said some members of his emergency room staff showed up after the tornado with injuries of their own, but they worked through the night anyway. \u003cbr/\u003e   \"I spent most of my life at that hospital,\" Roscoe said at a triage center at Joplin's Memorial Hall entertainment venue. \"It's awful. I had two pregnant nurses who dove under gurneys ... It's a testimony to the human spirit.\"\u003cbr/\u003e   As the tornado bore down on their trailer home, Joshua Wohlford, his pregnant girlfriend and their two toddlers fled to a Walmart store. The family narrowly escaped after a shelf of toys partially collapsed, forming a makeshift tent that shielded them.\u003cbr/\u003e   \"It was 15 minutes of hell,\" Wohlford said.\u003cbr/\u003e   At a Fast Trip convenience store, another 20 people ran into a pitch-black cooler as the building began to collapse around them. They documented their experience with a video that was drawing tens of thousands of views online by Monday afternoon. The audio was even more terrifying than the imagery _ earsplitting wind, objects getting smashing, wailing children and a woman praying repeatedly.\u003cbr/\u003e   Brennan Stebbins said the group crouched on the floor, clinging to and comforting each other until they were able to crawl out. No one was seriously hurt.\u003cbr/\u003e   Shielded by mattresses, former lawmaker Chuck Surface rode out the storm in his basement with his wife, daughter, granddaughter and dog. After about five minutes, the deafening roar abruptly stopped.\u003cbr/\u003e   \"When it got to where we thought we could look out,\" he said, \"we went to the top of the stairs and there was no roof _ it was all open air.\"\u003cbr/\u003e   Dazed survivors tried to salvage clothes, furniture, family photos and financial records from their flattened or badly damaged homes.\u003cbr/\u003e   Kelley Fritz rummaged briefly through what was left of a storage building, then gave up. Her boys, both Eagle Scouts, rushed into the neighborhood after realizing every home was destroyed.\u003cbr/\u003e   When they returned, she said, \"my sons had deceased children in their arms.\"\u003cbr/\u003e   Others just waited for answers.\u003cbr/\u003e   Justin Gibson stood outside the tangled remains of a Home Depot and pointed to a black pickup that had been tossed into them. It belonged to his roommate's brother, last seen at the store with his two young daughters.\u003cbr/\u003e   \"I don't know the extent of this yet,\" Gibson said, \"but I know I'll have friends and family dead.\"\u003cbr/\u003e   Last month, a ferocious pack of twisters roared across six Southern states, killing more than 300 people, more than two-thirds of them in Alabama.\u003cbr/\u003e   As in the Midwest, the Southerners also had warning _ as much as 24 minutes. But those storms were too wide and too powerful to escape. They obliterated entire towns from Tuscaloosa, Ala., to Bristol, Va., in what the weather service said was the nation's deadliest tornado outbreak since April 1974.\u003cbr/\u003e   \"This was one tornado,\" said Greg Carbin, warning specialist with the Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Okla. \"It was not the same type of large-scale outbreak.\"\u003cbr/\u003e   It did, however, get the attention of those who suffered in the South.\u003cbr/\u003e   \"We're praying for those people,\" said retired Marine Willie Walker, whose Tuscaloosa home suffered more than $50,000 in damage. \"We know what they're going through because we've been there already.\"\u003cbr/\u003e   Forecasters said severe weather would probably persist all week. Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma could see tornadoes through Tuesday, he said, and the bad weather could reach the East Coast by Friday.\u003cbr/\u003e   The twister that hit Joplin was one of 68 reported across seven Midwest states over the weekend. 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