The next section of this paper provides a brief description of the 2011 Joplin tornado, followed by an overview of tornado fatalities in the United States. Attempts are also made to study the locations where Joplin tornado victims died along with fatalities by structure type and damage zone. We hypothesized that the number of deaths would decrease outward from the central zone. This examination also includes gender and age analysis of the tornado victims. The objective of this study is to examine the deaths caused by the 2011 Joplin tornado by damage zones. They also analyzed fatalities in terms of the Tornado Injury Scale (TIS) and four damaged areas derived using the spatial video system. One notable exception is the study of Curtis and Fagan (2013), who, using spatial video, analyzed 135 of the 162 Joplin tornado fatalities along the spatial video path by type of location and age category. As a result, tornado deaths are exclusively studied in relation to EF scale measured along the horizontal path. Unfortunately, damage zones of tornado paths are widely ignored by hazard researchers. The area across the tornado path or width of the tornado track that sustains tornado damage is termed the “damage zone,” which can be further divided based on the extent of the damage. This is primarily because of variation in wind speed across the tornado track (see Wurman et al. 2012) claim that structures on the edge of a tornado suffer the least damage these studies further suggest that if the central zone sees EF5 damage, then structures on the edge suffer only EF0 or EF1 damage. Empirical studies (e.g., Turner and Hacker 2011 Simmons et al. The strength or intensity of tornadoes and hence the extent of damage and death usually decreases toward outer zones. This zone generally sustains the most damage and is the location of the most deaths. The EF scale applied along the tornado path should most accurately represent the event’s magnitude at the central zone of the path.

The strength of tornadoes varies not only linearly or horizontally, but also within or across the path. In the United States, on average, tornadoes are approximately 500 ft (150 m) across ( Lyons 1997). At one point, the funnel was 2.5 mi (4 km) wide. One of the widest tornadoes was the Hallam, Nebraska, event that occurred on. Although length is a dominant distinguishing feature, the width of tornado paths also varies, ranging from a few feet to a mile or more. 1 Irrespective of lengths, tornado tracks are widely considered linear, like rivers and roads, and thus are represented by a line, usually running southwest to northeast ( Suckling and Ashley 2006). The paths of long-track tornadoes differ in strength or magnitude, which is now measured on the Enhanced Fujita (EF) scale, along their paths. In the United States, tornado paths typically range from less than a mile up to 100 mi (150 km). The number of deaths and the extent of destruction caused by tornadoes are directly associated with their track length or path and their magnitude ( Paul 2011 Simmons and Sutter 2011, 2012). Several recommendations are offered to reduce future U.S. Finally, the lack of basements in residential and other structures most likely contributed greatly to the high death toll, although the degree remains uncertain. tornado event, calling into question how well such structures protect occupants. The results of this study further show that more people died in nonresidential buildings in Joplin than is usual in a U.S. The central zone (labeled as “catastrophic”) had the most deaths, with the number decreasing systematically in both directions from the center of that zone. Tabular data collected primarily from secondary sources revealed the number of deaths and death rates differ significantly by zone of destruction.

This study analyzed Joplin deaths by damage zone and place of death. The Joplin tornado death toll was also far higher than the average annual number of deaths caused by tornadoes in the United States between 20. The EF5 tornado was the deadliest single tornado to occur in the United States since modern record keeping began in 1950, surpassing the tornado of 8 June 1953, which claimed 116 lives in Flint, Michigan. On, a massive tornado tore through a densely populated section of Joplin, Missouri, killing 162 people.

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