I took this photo a day or two after the Joplin tornado. My parents lived in Joplin before I was born and I took them on this flight to see the devastation. You can still make out the scar today from the tornado when you fly past Joplin coming into Springfield from the west
May 22, 2011, started like any other Sunday in Joplin, Missouri: church services, family lunches, a high school graduation. But by late afternoon, the atmosphere transformed into a deadly force. Meteorologist Alex Wilson gives us a firsthand look at the devastation along the tornadoβs path: