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Missouri - Joplin Tornado Kills 161 (7th Deadliest in US History)

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Joplin Tornado Kills 116, Deadliest Since 1953

<CITE class=byline>By Brian K. Sullivan -<SCRIPT type=text/javascript>document.write(dateFormat(new Date(1306184396000),"mmm d, yyyy h:MM TT Z"));</SCRIPT> May 23, 2011 3:59 PM CT <NOSCRIPT></NOSCRIPT></CITE>

The tornado that killed 116 people in Joplin, Missouri, was the deadliest single U.S. twister since 1953, with winds that may have reached 198 miles per hour (319 kph), according to Jack Hayes, director of the National Weather Service.

At least 481 people have died in tornadoes so far this year, the earliest such a high toll has ever been reached, said Russell Schneider, director of the weather service?s Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Oklahoma. Tomorrow is expected to be another active day for tornados from Kansas to Texas.

?We are now on pace for a record year for tornado fatalities,? Schneider said on conference call with reporters today. ?I think we have to be aware that we are just now entering the peak of the season.?

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http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-...-116-in-deadliest-u-s-twister-since-1953.html
 
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Destructive Joplin Missouri Tornado

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Uploaded by TornadoVideosdotnet on May 23, 2011

On May 22, 2011 a highly destructive and deadly tornado tore through the town of Joplin, MO. Here is video of the tornado entering the southwest side of town, filmed by TornadoVideos.net Basehunters team Colt Forney, Isaac Pato, Kevin Rolfs, and Scott Peake.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XT7CtF5ljxY


First Person video of Joplin MO tornado 5/22/11

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Uploaded by izelsg on May 22, 2011
The video i took while at Fastrip on east 20th street. We huddled in the back of the store until the glass got sucked out , then ran into the walk in storage fridge. Sorry for the lack of visuals but the audio is pretty telling of how intense the storm was. The tornado hits at around 1:20 seconds.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQnvxJZucds
 
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Prayers for Joplin. So sad.
 
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Rescue crews comb Joplin for survivors
Members of a search and rescue squad from Kansas City leave a storm-wracked neighborhood.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mogov/5753361295/in/set-72157626793019416

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Posted on Tue, May. 24, 2011 07:20 AM

Search teams continue to look for tornado survivors in Joplin​

By LAURA BAUER
The Kansas City Star​

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Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon said this morning that authorities are hopeful that some residents are buried in debris and are waiting to be rescued.​

"We still believe there are people out there alive," Nixon said just before 6:30 am in front of St. John?s Regional Medical Center, which was hit by the EF4 tornado.Rescue crews plan to search until 2 p.m. today. Severe weather is expected in the area later today.​

... Nixon said this morning that more bodies will be recovered and that he expects this to be the deadliest tornado in American history.​

Read more: http://www.kansascity.com/2011/05/24/2898756/search-teams-continue-to-look.html#ixzz1NH0F9J00
 
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The White House Blog

President Obama on Devastation Throughout the Midwest: ?We Are Here For You?

Posted by Kori Schulman on May 24, 2011 at 06:39 AM EDT

Ed. Note: You can help people affected by disasters like the recent floods, tornadoes and wildfires, as well as countless other crises at home and around the world, through American Red Cross Disaster Relief. If you are in the affected areas, you can also register as "Safe and Well" to let your friends and family know you are OK.

Before starting the day in London, President Obama took a moment to discuss the devastation in Missouri, Minnesota and across the Midwest. On Sunday, the President will travel to Missouri to talk with people who?ve been affected and local officials about response efforts to offer his assurance that the entire country is behind them. ?The American people are by your side," President Obama said, "We?re going to stay there until every home is repaired, until every neighborhood is rebuilt, until every business is back on its feet. That's my commitment, and that's the American people?s commitment.?

Here are President Obama?s remarks:
Like all Americans, we have been monitoring what?s been taking place very closely and have been heartbroken by the images that we've seen in Joplin, Missouri, in particular. The devastation is comparable and may end up exceeding some of the devastation that we saw in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, just a few weeks ago.

So far we know that over 100 people lost their lives. Others remain missing, and hundreds more are injured. And obviously, our thoughts and prayers are with the families who are suffering at this moment. And all we can do is let them know that all of America cares deeply about them and that we are going to do absolutely everything we can to make sure that they recover.

These storms often strike without warning, as we saw a little further south over the last couple of weeks. And it?s going to be important for us to make sure that we are sustaining our efforts at rebuilding after the news cameras leave. We can make sure that the families and communities upended by these storms have everything they need to pull through. And in that regard, Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano as well as I have spoken with Missouri Governor Jay Nixon. We?ve offered him not only our condolences, but we?ve told him that we will give him every ounce of resources the federal government may have that we can bring to bear on this situation.

At my direction, FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate and Deputy Administrator Rich Serino have traveled to Missouri to make sure our federal government is working hand in hand with state and local officials to give them the help that they need. And on Sunday, I myself will travel to Missouri to talk with folks who?ve been affected, to talk to local officials about our response effort and hopefully to pray with folks and give them whatever assurance and comfort I can that the entire country is going to be behind them.

Now, these storms that came this weekend obviously compounded what has already been an extraordinary storm season throughout the Midwest and in the South. We understand that there are more storms that are forecast today, so the thing I think I want to emphasize more than anything else, it is critical that Americans in affected areas heed storm warnings and take the lead of your local officials.

I know that a lot of people are wondering how they?ll get through the coming days or months or even years, but I want everybody in Joplin, everybody in Missouri, everybody in Minnesota, everybody across the Midwest to know that we are here for you. The American people are by your side. We?re going to stay there until every home is repaired, until every neighborhood is rebuilt, until every business is back on its feet. That's my commitment, and that's the American people?s commitment.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011...evastation-throughout-midwest-we-are-here-you
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In Wake of Tornado, Official Says 1,500 Are Unaccounted For</NYT_HEADLINE>

By A.G. SULZBERGER and BRIAN STELTER

Published: May 24, 2011

JOPLIN, Mo. ? About 1,500 people are unaccounted for in this battered city, a Fire Department official said Tuesday, as rescue workers took advantage of a few hours of sunny weather to continue searching for survivors in buildings leveled by the country?s deadliest tornado in more than 60 years. At least 117 people have died.

While the number of those unaccounted for is alarmingly high in a city with only 49,000 people ? and raises the specter of a far higher death count ? it may merely be a reflection of the widespread breakdown of communication systems here in the wake of Sunday?s vicious storm. Many residents who fled ahead of the tornado or survived it may be unable to notify the authorities or family members who have reported them missing.

Capt. Robert Daus of the Maryland Heights Fire District, who is helping to lead a team of about 100 St. Louis-area firefighters in search and rescue operations in Joplin, said that in addition to the 1,500 people who remain unaccounted for, an additional 500 had been injured by the tornado, which cut a three-quarter-mile-wide path through this southwestern Missouri city and damaged as many as 30 percent of its buildings.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/25/us/25tornado.html
 
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http://www.joplinglobe.com/tornadomay2011/x1439576418/Free-childcare-for-tornado-victims
May 25, 2011
Free childcare for tornado victims

By Kevin McClintock Globe Staff Writer

JOPLIN, Mo. ? Victims of Sunday's tornado may struggle to watch children while sorting through debris, cleaning up and running errands. The Joplin Family YMCA and other agencies are offering free childcare to help those families.....
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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304520804576344961380824414.html?mod=WSJ_newsreel_us
MAY 25, 2011, 6:44 P.M. ET

Missouri Death Toll Rises as Storms Elsewhere Kill 14
By SUSAN CAREY, ILAN BRAT and AMY MERRICK

The death toll from Sunday's tornado in Joplin climbed to 125 Wednesday, according to Missouri officials, while three nearby states said storms overnight killed 14 additional people.

Missouri's Department of Public Safety said storms halted the search-and-rescue effort in Joplin on Tuesday night, but searching resumed Wednesday. The operation is 85% complete, the DPS said in a situation update Wednesday morning. Cadaver dogs have begun searching the town. Joplin requires additional law-enforcement officers and may need more 911 operations, the DPS said.

At least 14 people were killed in Oklahoma, Arkansas and Kansas, officials in those states told the Associated Press......
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Missouri To Release List Of Missing
Residents Hold Out Hope For The 1,500 People Still Unaccounted For Following Tornado...
http://www.kctv5.com/news/28030612/detail.html


Emergency Doses of Tetanus Vaccine Headed to Joplin for Tornado Response Effort
The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services (DHSS) has arranged for emergency shipments of 1,300 doses of tetanus-containing vaccine to be delivered to the Joplin area today...
http://health.mo.gov/information/ne..._Headed_to_Joplin_for_Tornado_Response_Effort
 
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Missouri Officials to Release List of Missing</NYT_HEADLINE><NYT_BYLINE>

By MONICA DAVEY, A.G. SULZBERGER and RICHARD A. OPPEL

</NYT_BYLINE>Published: May 26, 2011

JOPLIN, Mo. ? As a desperate search for the missing from a deadly tornado here entered a fifth day, officials in Missouri prepared on Thursday morning to release a list of all those still unaccounted for.

For families here, a place on that list was a complicated, mixed circumstance: On the one hand, it would mean that the body of their loved one had not been found and identified among the 125 so far known to have died here; on the other, it meant more waiting and wondering, hoping that the chaos of all that had happened and spotty cellphone service might yet be the happy explanation for why a relative or friend still had not been heard from.

But even as searchers looked, again and again, for survivors and victims beneath the piles of rubble that now stretch six miles through this southwestern Missouri city, local leaders have been wrestling with a different, difficult question: when to start cleaning up the destroyed area. They know that ultimately they must sweep away what the storm did not.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/27/us/27joplin.html
 
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Missouri Department of Public Safety News Release

JEREMIAH W. (JAY) NIXON, GOVERNOR

Contact:
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
JOPLIN, Mo

May 27, 2011


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State public safety officials report progress in reducing number of unaccounted-for individuals from Joplin tornado

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<META content=text/css http-equiv=Content-Style-Type>The Missouri Department of Public Safety today reported progress in the effort to determine the status of individuals who were unaccounted-for as a result of Sunday's devastating tornado in Joplin. On May 25, at the direction of Gov. Jay Nixon, the department assumed control of the process of locating unaccounted-for individuals.

On May 26, the department released a list of 232 individuals for whom an official missing persons report had been filed. More than 60 law-enforcement and emergency-management personnel, including Missouri State Highway Patrol troopers, State Emergency Management Agency staff, federal partners, and local detectives are working under the department's direction on this top priority.

At a briefing today, the department announced that the number of unaccounted-for individuals is now 156. The updates from yesterday are:

? 90 persons reported located
? 6 persons confirmed deceased by the federal Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Team (DMORT) and next of kin notified.
? 22 additional missing persons reports filed
? 2 persons confirmed as duplicates

Persons categorized as "reported located" are individuals who the Missouri State Highway Patrol has received credible information indicating that they are alive.

Following the release and posting of the initial list yesterday, the Highway Patrol received many phone calls and e-mails that included credible information about the location of individuals. The Patrol is also monitoring postings on Facebook and other social media sites. The Patrol and local police continue to pursue information to confirm the status of these individuals.

"The 24-hour a day effort to account for all individuals is making progress, and we will continue to work around the clock," said Department of Public Safety Deputy Director Andrea Spillars. "We believe that the release of the names of persons for whom an official missing persons report had been filed has been an important tool in our effort to account for all individuals and we urge the public to continue to check the list and to contact the Missouri State Highway Patrol if they have information about the status of individuals still listed as unaccounted-for.?

To help reduce the list and speed the process of reuniting tornado survivors with loved ones, the public should call the Missouri State Highway Patrol Found-Persons Hotline: 417-895-6868.

To get direction on filing a report about an unaccounted-for individual, families and loved ones may call 417-659-5464 or file a report with the Highway Patrol in person at the Billingsley Student Center on the campus of Missouri Southern State University.

The names of these unaccounted-for individuals are being cross-referenced with all hospitals that admitted or treated patients injured during the tornado, shelters housing tornado survivors, applicants for disaster assistance and the Red Cross Safe and Well program. Additionally, the Department of Public Safety is working with cell phone service providers to check whether cell phones have been used by individuals who have been unaccounted-for list since their names were added to the list.

Deputy Director Spillars restated today that officials understand that a number of the individuals still listed as unaccounted-for are persons believed to be deceased and who are in the process of being confirmed as deceased by the federal Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Team and next of kin notified. At Gov. Nixon's direction, additional state resources are being deployed to expedite the notification of next of kin. Spillars stated that the department empathizes with relatives and loved ones who would like the names removed immediately, but said the department believes it is important to wait for final word from DMORT that identification has been confirmed and next of kin notified.

The unaccounted-for list is available on the Missouri Department of Public Safety Web site, www.dps.mo.gov and will be updated daily.​

 
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May 27, 2011

Gov. Nixon proclaims State Day of Prayer and Remembrance for Missourians affected by Joplin tornado

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo - Gov. Jay Nixon has declared Sunday May 29, one week after the devastating tornado that struck Joplin, as an official State Day of Prayer and Remembrance. The United States and Missouri flags will fly at half-staff at all government buildings in Missouri throughout Sunday.
The Governor and local clergy has also organized a memorial service for the victims of the devastating tornado that struck the city of Joplin on May 22. President Barack Obama will attend the service.

"In the most trying times of disaster, grief and loss, Missourians come together to provide support, strength and assistance," said Gov. Nixon in his proclamation. "During this day of prayer and this memorial service, I invite all Missourians to pause and remember their neighbors and draw upon the resources of their faith in support of their fellow Missourians."

The memorial service will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Taylor Performing Arts Center on the campus of Missouri Southern State University. During the service, Gov. Nixon and President Obama will be joined by local clergy, with music, scripture and prayer.

Gov. Nixon will offer remarks in remembrance of the victims and on behalf of survivors and the Joplin-area community. President Obama will offer brief remarks.

Randy Garris of College Heights Christian Church will lead the service, introduce speakers and read scripture. Rev. Justin Monaghan of St. Mary's Church will bring the invocation and benediction. Rev. Aaron Brown of St. Paul's United Methodist Church will deliver the message.

Both St. Mary's and St. Paul churches were destroyed by the tornado.
A strong showing of local, state and federal officials is expected, and a large section of the auditorium will be set aside for local clergy. The public is invited and encouraged to attend.

http://governor.mo.gov/newsroom/201...ce_for_Missourians_affected_by_Joplin_tornado
 
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
JOPLIN, Mo

May 27, 2011

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Thirty-one individuals confirmed as deceased as result of Joplin tornado

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<META content=text/css http-equiv=Content-Style-Type>The Missouri Department of Public Safety tonight announced that 31 individuals have been confirmed as deceased as a result of the tornado that devastated Joplin on May 22.​

At the direction of Gov. Jay Nixon, Missouri State Highway Patrol troopers have been deployed to expedite the notification of next-of ?kin.

As of 9 p.m. Friday, May 27, the deceased victims whose next-of-kin have received notifications of their deaths are:​

Grace Aquino, 46, of Joplin
Tami L. Campbell, 28, Joplin
Trenton Caton, 6, Pierce City
Raymond Chew, 66, Joplin
Clyde Coleman, 72, Galena, Kansas
Adam Darnaby, 27, Joplin
Ellen Doyle, 75, Joplin
Caley Hare, 16, Joplin
Hayze Howard, 1, Webb City
Harli Howard, 11, Webb City
Thomas Russell Howard, 29, Webb City
Nancy Martin, Miami, Oklahoma, age not confirmed
Randall E. Mell, 49, Joplin
Donald R. Miller, 49, Joplin
Doris Montgomery, 83, Joplin
Sharyl Nelson, 34, Joplin
Dennis M. Osborn, 34, Seneca
Shelly Marie Ramsey, 42, Neosho
Loretta Randell, 54, Joplin
Troy Raney, 39, Joplin
Johnny Richey, 52, Joplin
Tonya L. Sawyer, 41, Fort Scott, Kansas
Judy Smith, 71, Joplin
Virginia Solomon, 80, Joplin
Kayleigh Teal, 16, Pittsburg, Kansas
John Thomas, Jr., 40, Joplin
Sandra K. Thomas, 55, Carthage
Margaret Tuit, 92, Joplin
Miles Wells, 49, Webb City
Tiera Whitley, 20, Fulton, Kansas
Zach Williams, 12, Joplin​

The Department of Public Safety will release a daily update of those individuals confirmed as deceased as a result of the tornado, following notification of next-of-kin. The updates will be available on the department Web site, www.dps.mo.gov.​

 
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
JOPLIN, Mo.

May 28, 2011

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State public safety officials provide update on effort to account for all individuals following Joplin tornado

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<META content=text/css http-equiv=Content-Style-Type>JOPLIN, Mo. ? The Missouri Department of Public Safety provided an afternoon update on the effort to determine the status of individuals who were unaccounted-for as a result of Sunday's devastating tornado in Joplin. ​

On May 26, the department released a list of 232 individuals for whom an official missing persons report had been filed. More than 60 law-enforcement and emergency-management personnel, including Missouri State Highway Patrol troopers, State Emergency Management Agency staff, federal partners, and local detectives are working under the department's direction on this top priority.​

As of 1 p.m., the Missouri Department of Public Safety provided the following updated totals:​

?100 persons are unaccounted for; this number includes nine persons who have been reported deceased by family, but for whom official confirmation is still underway.
?114 persons have been reported located.
?29 additional missing persons reports have been filed.
?2 persons have been confirmed as duplicates. ​

Persons categorized as "reported located" are individuals who the Missouri State Highway Patrol has received credible information indicating that they are alive. Following the release and posting of the initial list on May 26, the Highway Patrol received many phone calls and e-mails that included credible information about the location of individuals. The Patrol is also monitoring postings on facebook and other social media sites. The Patrol and local police continue to pursue information to confirm the status of these individuals.​

"Since Gov. Nixon directed the Department of Public Safety to take charge of the process of locating unaccounted-for individuals, we have committed to a 24-hour a day effort of working with local and federal partners, and the public, to reduce the number of unaccounted-for individuals to zero," said Department of Public Safety Deputy Director Andrea Spillars. "The department and its agencies ? the Highway Patrol and the State Emergency Management Agency ? are devoting all available resources to this effort because that is what the relatives, friends and loved ones of those who are unaccounted-for deserve.?​

Spillars restated that the department understands that a number of the individuals still listed as unaccounted-for are persons believed to be deceased and who are in the process of being confirmed as deceased by the local coroner and the federal Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Team (DMORT). That is why the department is now reporting a new category ? persons reported as deceased by their families, but for whom official confirmation is still underway. ​

Spillars said the department is taking numerous steps to expedite this process, including dispatching state troopers to notify families in a respectful and dignified manner, immediately after the identity has been confirmed by DMORT and the county coroner.​

The names of these unaccounted-for individuals are being cross-referenced with all hospitals that admitted or treated patients injured during the tornado, shelters housing tornado survivors, applicants for disaster assistance and the Red Cross Safe and Well program. Additionally, the Department of Public Safety is working with cell phone service providers to check whether cell phones have been used by individuals who have been unaccounted-for list since their names were added to the list.​

The unaccounted-for list is available on the Missouri Department of Public Safety Web site, www.dps.mo.gov and will be updated daily.​

As of 1 p.m. Saturday, May 28, the next-of-kin of 52 deceased individuals have been notified. The names of these deceased individuals are:​


Miguel Alvarez, 28, Joplin
Sarah L. Anderson, 47, Joplin
Grace Aquino, 46, of Joplin
Dorothy T. Bell, 88, Joplin
Regina M. Bloxham, 55, Joplin
Tami L. Campbell, 28, Joplin
Arriyinnah S. Carmona, 8, Joplin
Moises Carmona-Navarro, 42, Joplin
Trenton Caton, 6, Pierce City
Raymond Chew, 66, Joplin
Clyde Coleman, 72, Galena, Kansas
Lois A. Comfort, 66, Webb City
Adam Darnaby, 27, Joplin
Ellen Doyle, 75, Joplin
Randy E. England, 34, Neosho
Betty Fisher, 86, Joplin
Marsha A. Frost, 32, Joplin
Sebastian C. Frost, 10, Joplin
Charles K. Gaudsmith, 21, Carthage
Caley Hare, 16, Joplin
Hayze Howard, 1, Webb City
Harli Howard, 11, Webb City
Virgil T. Reid, 77, Joplin
Thomas Russell Howard, 29, Webb City
Nancy Martin, 52, Miami, Oklahoma
Randall E. Mell, 49, Joplin
Donald R. Miller, 49, Joplin
Doris Montgomery, 83, Joplin
Sharyl Nelson, 34, Joplin
William R. Norton, 18, Joplin
Dennis M. Osborn, 34, Seneca
Shirley Ann Parker, 68, Joplin
John H. Petty, 37, Neosho
Natalia M. Puebla, 37, Neosho
Shelly Marie Ramsey, 42, Neosho
Loretta Randell, 54, Joplin
Troy Raney, 39, Joplin
Johnny Richey, 52, Joplin
Vicki Robertson, 66, Joplin
Tonya L. Sawyer, 41, Fort Scott, Kansas
Judy Smith, 71, Joplin
Virginia Mae Salmon, 80, Joplin
Steven J. Stephens, 28, Joplin
Kayleigh Teal, 16, Pittsburg, Kansas
John Thomas, Jr., 40, Joplin
Sandra K. Thomas, 55, Carthage
Margaret Tuit, 92, Joplin
Michael E. Tyndall, 33, Joplin
Miles Wells, 49, Webb City
Tiera Whitley, 20, Fulton, Kansas
Zach Williams, 12, Joplin
Charles W. Writer, 74, Joplin​


To help reduce the list of unaccounted-for individuals and speed the process of reuniting tornado survivors with loved ones, Spillars urged the public to call the Missouri State Highway Patrol Found-Persons Hotline: 417-895-6868. ​

To get direction on filing a report about an unaccounted-for individual, families and loved ones may call 417-659-5464 or file a report with the Highway Patrol in person at the Billingsley Student Center on the campus of Missouri Southern State University.​

The Department of Public Safety will release a daily update of those individuals confirmed as deceased as a result of the tornado, following notification of next-of-kin. The updates will be available on the department Web site, www.dps.mo.gov.​

 
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