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# Massive tornado rips through Missouri
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## The tornado roared across southwestern Missouri, flattening homes and
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businesses, smashing up cars and leaving at least 30 people dead.
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1:38PM BST 23 May 2011
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Cars were ripped apart and thrown on top of each other. A wrecked helicopter
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lay on its side in front of a damaged hospital while many of Joplin's 50,000
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residents were left without power after the tornado struck.
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Triage centres were set-up around the city. At Memorial Hall, an entertainment
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venue, nurses and other emergency workers from area hospitals treated
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critically injured patients.
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Hundreds of windows were blown out at St John's Medical Centre, where staff
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had just had time to evacuate patients to nearby hospitals before the tornado
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struck the building.
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The same storm system that produced the Joplin tornado spawned twisters along
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a broad swath of the Midwest, from Oklahoma to Wisconsin. At least one person
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was killed in Minneapolis.
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Governor Jay Nixon activated the National Guard and declared a state of
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emergency.
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[![Joplin tornado: death toll reaches 132][15] ][16]
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### [132 people dead in Joplin][16]
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28 May 2011
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