What We Are Doing
On May 22, 2021 our community will commemorate ten years since a tornado devastated Joplin and Duquesne.
Who we are…
The 10th Anniversary Committee is comprised of city officials and community volunteers who each felt the call to help recognize this significant date in our history.
Our Legacy 10-Year Project.
Joplin’s response to and recovery from the devastating EF5 tornado on May 22, 2011, has inspired many. The Joplin Hope Center for Disaster Recovery will be a comprehensive resource of digitized primary source material when disasters strike other communities. It also will be open to researchers, journalists, and others looking at steps communities can take to be better prepared. Learn more...
Events to Commemorate the 10th Anniversary
May 22, 2021
5:15 PM
Ceremony at Cunningham Park
Former Governor Jeremiah “Jay” Nixon speaking
JETHD Joplin Eagles Television and Joplin Proud teamed up to produce this 10 year anniversary documentary of the Joplin tornado. The documentary talks to survivors and members from the community who picked up the pieces from May 22, 2011. Thank you to the Joplin State Farm agents for helping fund the documentary.Click here to add your own text
After the May 2011 tornado, UAE officials, who had seen the disaster on international news broadcasts, rushed to help. To help Joplin recover after the tornado destroyed the town’s only public high school and a hospital, the UAE provided laptops to almost 2,200 high school students so classes could resume in August. A grant to Mercy Hospital Joplin also funded the construction of a pediatric care wing in the new building. Dana Al Marashi, Head of Department of Cultural Diplomacy at the Embassy of the United Arab Emirates in Washington DC, sent special greetings for our tenth anniversary.
