Tagged: tornado

The state of Missouri is providing $2.3 million to help build special rooms at five Joplin schools designed to withstand severe weather.

Joplin residents are getting an extra layer of security in storms thanks to their approval last week of a $62 million school bond issue.

The same storm that produced tornadoes in Harrisburg, Illinois and Branson, Missouri also struck  rural Stoddard County, Missouri. The National Weather Service confirmed the level EF - 03 tornado left a 21 mile stretch of destruction from Puxico to Bell City. As KRCU’s Jacob McCleland reports, residents are now sorting through the wreckage … and beginning to put their lives back together.

A hospital in Branson treated 32 people in the hours after a tornado hit the tourist destination.

Some Joplin residents are questioning how the city's school district used millions of dollars it received in donations after the May 22 tornado.