When the tornado passed, the store was destroyed but those inside were all alive, she said. "We were getting hit by rocks and I don't even know what hit me," said Swatosh.
The group huddled on the floor holding onto each other, and prayed. Leslie Swatosh ducked into a liquor store with several others as the tornado descended on them. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel) Charlie Riedel / AP A large tornado moved through much of the city Sunday, damaging a hospital and hundreds of homes and businesses. An emergency worker searches a Walmart store that was severely damaged by a tornado in Joplin, Mo., Monday, May 22, 2011. Their car totaled in the Walmart parking lot, they weren't sure how they would get home - or what would await them there. Monday morning, one of those buses took his family to a shelter downtown. Wohlford, 27, volunteered, helping the passengers unload. The family was taken to a hospital, where a fleet of yellow school buses brought in people with minor injuries. "It was 15 minutes of hell," Wohlford said. They escaped serious injury when a shelf of toys partially collapsed, forming a tent over them as they huddled on the ground. Joshua Wohlford, his pregnant girlfriend and their two toddlers sought shelter at a nearby Walmart when he saw the tornado bearing down on their trailer. "Things were going as they were supposed to go." "There was a lot of strength in the leadership in the hospital and ER here," Pace said, referring to the protection of those still inside before all could be evacuated. ON TV: Witness: Tornado Swarm 2011 airs Sunday, May 29, 9 p.m.He helped pull debris off two people outside the emergency room. The especially violent twister may have been an F5 tornado on the Fujita scale, which ranks tornadoes based on wind speed and damage potential, according to Jeff Masters, meteorological director for the Weather Underground website.Īn F4 tornado packs winds from 207 to 260 miles (333 to 418 kilometers) an hour, while an F5 storm's gusts rage from 261 to 318 miles (420 to 511 kilometers) an hour. That's really what it looked like," Joplin resident and high school principal Kerry Sachetta told the AP. "You see pictures of World War II, the devastation and all that with the bombing. The tornado tore a path roughly a mile (1.6 kilometers) wide and six miles (9.6 kilometers) long, destroying a hospital, flattening a school, and slamming cars into buildings, the Associated Press reported. People walk a devastated street in Joplin, Missouri (map), on Sunday, hours after a tornado killed at least 116 people, as of Monday afternoon, and left the town in ruins. That's really what it looked like," Joplin resident and high school principal Kerry Sachetta told the AP.The especially violent twister may have been an F5 tornado on the Fujita scale, which ranks tornadoes based on wind speed and damage potential, according to Jeff Masters, meteorological director for the Weather Underground website.An F4 tornado packs winds from 207 to 260 miles (333 to 418 kilometers) an hour, while an F5 storm's gusts rage from 261 to 318 miles (420 to 511 kilometers) an hour.ON TV: Witness: Tornado Swarm 2011 airs Sunday, May 29, 9 p.m. People walk a devastated street in Joplin, Missouri (map), on Sunday, hours after a tornado killed at least 116 people, as of Monday afternoon, and left the town in ruins.The tornado tore a path roughly a mile (1.6 kilometers) wide and six miles (9.6 kilometers) long, destroying a hospital, flattening a school, and slamming cars into buildings, the Associated Press reported."You see pictures of World War II, the devastation and all that with the bombing.
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