More than 150 died when a twister tore through Joplin in 2011, making it the deadliest tornado in the last seven decades.

Joplin had seen several tornadoes in the past, including a 1971 twister that tore through 40 blocks across the city’s center and injured nearly 50 people, per the Joplin Public Library.

JOPLIN, Mo. — A primetime series telling stories of survival focuses its premiere episode on the May 22, 2011 tornado, and ...

NBC's latest series, Survival Mode, recently debuted with its first episode, which revisits the deadly 2011 Missouri tornado, which took no more than 30 minutes to turn into the deadliest disaster tha ...

The Wilsons chronicle their experience in an episode of the new NBC series, "Survival Mode", which aired July 7.

The Joplin tornado hit land in the early evening of May 22, 2011 which started as a typical spring Ozarks day in which severe weather was looming, Steve Runnels, ...

The horror of the Joplin tornado is the subject of a new documentary film, released nearly 14 years after the twister struck Missouri with cataclysmic force, ripping into a hospital, destroying ...

Cecil Cornish was one of the survivors of the deadly EF5 tornado that struck Joplin, Mo., in 2011 Cornish tells PEOPLE that many people have come out to him in some of the messages he has received ...

Irving Elementary School in Joplin, Mo., was destroyed by a tornado on May 22, 2011. Photo courtesy of Jace Anderson/FEMA Ever since an EF5 tornado touched down in Joplin, Mo., on May 22, 2011 ...

A primetime series telling stories of survival focuses its premiere episode on the May 22, 2011 tornado, and features our ...