The Joplin tornado touched down around 5:34 p.m., just east of the Missouri-Kansas state line, per the NIST report. Over the course of the next approximately 48 minutes, the tornado would escalate to ...

Netflix’s The Twister: Caught in the Storm revisits the harrowing events of May 22, 2011, when an EF5 tornado devastated Joplin, Missouri. With winds reaching up to 200 mph, the tornado tore a ...

Netflix's brand-new documentary, The Twister: Caught in the Storm, captures the true story of the category EF5 tornado that hit Joplin, Missouri, in 2011. There have been a number of tornado ...

Note: This video is from May 2011. JOPLIN, Mo. – Almost 14 years after the deadly EF5 tornado tore through Joplin, Missouri, Netflix released a documentary Wednesday highlighting the immense ...

A documentary about the 2011 Joplin tornado that debuted recently on Netflix has received generally positive reviews from residents – with trigger warnings.

Director-writer Alexandra Lacey now turns her attention to Joplin, Missouri. In 2011, a devastating EF5 tornado struck the Bible Belt town, killing over 150 people and injuring a thousand.

EF0 is the weakest, going up in severity until it reaches EF5 - which is the ranking of the Joplin tornado. As well as getting an EF ranking based on damage, the scale also looks at wind speeds.

A documentary about the 2011 Joplin tornado that debuted on Netflix Wednesday has received generally positive reviews from residents — with trigger warnings.