Posting this here as it may become a story of national interest... Obviously we have to wait for the survey but it looks like it may have been a violent tornado. The tornado appears to have tracked across the southern portion of the city and quite wide. It only happened a few hours ago and there are already reports of 24 deaths, but that number will probably rise. Joplin has a population of about 50,000. This is the latest example of a major tornado striking a densely populated area, an all