The tornado that changed WDHN Chief Meteorologist Chad Crilley’s life– 13 years later

Exactly 13 years ago this Wednesday, a massive, nearly mile-wide EF5 tornado with winds as high as two hundred miles per hour struck Joplin, Missouri. The storm would kill at least one hundred and fifty-eight people, injure more than a thousand others, and reduce a large part of the city to rubble. The twister was the deadliest since 1947, and the seventh deadliest since record-keeping began in 1950.