Joplin 2011 EF5 Tornado - Weather Channel On Air Coverage

The Weather Channel archive coverage of the Joplin EF5 tornado that struck on Sunday night, May 22, 2011. Mike Bettes and the Tornado Hunt team were storm chasing and arrived on the scene. The archive includes the development of the storm and then jumps to the devastation as Bettes arrives in town. Towards the end, Dr. Forbes arrives in Atlanta after returning from the plains to offer analysis of ongoing storms.
This tornado developed suddenly and quickly grew to one of the strongest in just a few minutes before entering Joplin. It is the deadliest tornado in the US since 1936, claiming the lives of 158 people and injuring over 1,000 others.
00:00 Severe weather coverage
10:46 First mention of Joplin
15:00 Phone call from Joplin
16:42 Total devastation
1:15:22 Dr Forbes covers ongoing storms
(The missing hour is another result of my 2011 DVR storage capacity limit and why I didn't upload this at the time.)
Using footage archived at a higher quality by ehatt600.