The episode bore eerie resemblance to a nearly identical event on May 4, 2007; the small town of Greensburg, home to roughly 700 people, was mostly wiped off the map by an EF5 tornado with 205 mph ...

The natural disaster club is not one anyone wants to join,” said Greensburg, Kansas, administrator Stacy Barnes. But more and ...

This story was updated to include comment from the Millersville University Weather Information Center, the National Weather ...

Two of those tornadoes (El Reno and Moore) have been initially rated EF5 and one (Shawnee) was an EF4 - ratings that are considered the most violent tornadoes.

Fourteen years ago, in May 2011, an EF5 tornado tore through the small town of Joplin, Mo., leaving nearly 160 people dead and injuring more than 1,100 others.

Opening Shot: News footage of the massive EF5 tornado that touched down in Joplin, Missouri on May 22, 2011. The Gist: The first episode of Survival Mode is about the EF5 tornado in Joplin that ...

Flowing Water Can Do As Much Damage As An EF5 Tornado Water flowing at just over 6 mph has the equivalent force per unit area as air blowing at EF5 tornado wind speeds.

The National Weather Service confirmed two EF1 tornadoes touched down in Worcester County, specifically in Holden and Paxton.

Incredibly, nobody was killed in this tornado, but 12 were injured. Oakfield remains one of only three F5 (or EF5) tornadoes on record in Wisconsin and the only known F/EF5 U.S. tornado to have ...

Here is a breakdown of the latest numbers related to the 2011 tornado season and Joplin, Missouri, where an EF-5 twister touched down Sunday, killing 124 and destroying 30 percent of the town.

Everything to know about the 2011 Missouri tornado featured on NBC's ‘Survival Mode' Survivors of the deadliest tornado in 60 years are recounting their experiences in the debut episode of NBC's ...