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the different area it had hit on valley spring the funell cloud in marion county arkansas

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the same area in marion county arkansas

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the tornado that hit in marion county arkansas  it happen on may 30 , 2004  close to little point north of marion county arkansas

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marion county ar historical tornado data

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Tornado risk and historical tornado data for Marion County, AR. Search for local tornado risk levels by city or address.

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Tornado in Mountain Home at nursing home by hospital in April

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A tornado-warned storm struck the city of Mountain Home and the rest of the Twin Lakes Area on Friday night, causing damage according to police radio traffic.

A tornado warning was issued by the National Weather Service at 8:31 p.m. reporting a severe thunderstorm with radar indicated rotation was three miles southwest of Mountain Home near the Colfax community.

Damage was reported at Hiram Shaddox Geriatric Center on the campus of Baxter Regional Medical Center, patients were evacuated from the facility. By first repsonders and personnel from Baxter Regional.

Baxter Regional Director of Marketing Tobias Pugsley said 10 of the evacuated residents would be housed at the hospital complex, with the remaining residents being housed at other nursing homes in the Twin Lakes Area.

Initial assessments showed no damage to Baxter Regional, according to Pugsley, but the hospital was on emergency power with a backup generator. The facility will be assessed again on Saturday.

The storm proceeded through the city with a structure fire reported on Glenstone Drive and roof damage reported to the Meadow Springs Apartment complex on North Church Street.

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Emergency personnel respond to Hiram Shaddox Geriatric Center in Mountain Home after the building was damaged by a severe storms. (Photo: Josh Dooley/The Baxter Bulletin)

Authorities reported that a power pole and associated power lines are down near the intersection of College and North streets in Mountain Home. Power outages were reported throughout the city.

The Bulletin witnessed two trees down on a home at the intersection of College and Lake streets and was investigating a report of a gas leak near Baxter Cinema in the Twin Lakes Plaza.

Authorities are reporting that County Road 804 is now mostly clear, but a home in the area had it's roof peeled back. Fire Departments on the scene report no injuries at this time.

Officials are now reporting that power lines are down on U.S. Highway 62 near the Dollar General store located in the Cranfield Road area. Mallard Point Road had one tree down and loose debris in the roadway, with Cranfield Road covered with loose debris.

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Mountain Home firefighters examine damage to Hiram Shaddox Geriatric Center after a tornado-warned storm struck Mountain Home. (Photo: Josh Dooley/The Baxter Bulletin)

A Bulletin reader reported a boat and RV storage facility suffered heavy damage in the Cranfield Road area.

A home near Mallard Point reportedly suffered roof damage from the storm.

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CLOSE A tornado-warned storm struck the city of Mountain Home and the rest of the Twin Lakes Area on Friday night, causing damage according to police radio traffic. A tornado warning was issued by the National Weather Service at 8:31 p.m.

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this is  damanged it caused in northwest little rock arkansas

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the tornado in little rock arkansas in 2014 that i was in

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the picture on the left is joplin from before the tornado hit then on the right is the date of the tornado hit

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this is a monster tornado let me get my camera to take pictures and videos

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XT7CtF5ljxY

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64covicCcIY

-zoe

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Damage: $2.8 billion (2011 USD) (Costliest tornado in U.S. history); $3.05 billion (2018 USD)

Highest winds: > 200 mph (320 km/h)

Total fatalities: 158 direct fatalities (+3 indirect), 1,150 injuries

Max rating ¹: EF5 tornado                                                                                                                                                     -zoe

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Rance Junge had the surprise of his life when he opened the back door of his Pronto pharmacy in Joplin, Mo., Sunday evening, exposing a scene from another world.

"It was just one big wall," he said of the nearly mile-wide tornado. "You couldn't see a funnel. It was just so massive."

His story of survival is just one of many beginning to emerge after the twister cut a six-mile-wide path through Joplin on Sunday, causing widespread destruction and killing 117 people -- the most from one storm in 60 years.

"It wasn't even that bad out here," he said of the sky before the twister showed up at his door. "It wasn't that dark or anything. ... It didn't really seem that threatening or anything."

Although sirens had been sounding, Junge said he didn't check outside again until the store's computers started flickering on and off.

As one woman in the pharmacy hunkered down by a toilet in the bathroom, he slid under the sink and held onto the pipes. He said he was hit by a 2-by-4 because he wouldn't let go of the pipes to protect his head.

"I was just hoping the bathroom walls would hold and they didn't," Junge said. "The first wall of the tornado took out most of the building. But we made it. The toilet held."

Mother: Bicycle Helmet Saved Her Son's Life

As the tornado neared her home in Joplin, Natalie Gonzalez ran to the bathroom and huddled in the tub with her 9-year-old son Augie, her puppy and boyfriend.

"We saw the tornado warning," she told ABC News today. "We heard the sirens. I looked outside and saw the dark cloud. We made the split-second decision to take a blanket, take a pillow. ... I threw these things over my son. "

Gonzalez said that at the last minute, she got her son to put on his bicycle helmet because she'd heard it would protect a child during a hurricane.

"At one point, the toilet flew up out of the ground and hit my son in the head and me in the back and the bicycle helmet saved his life," she said. When it appeared that they were in the eye of the storm, Gonzalez said, the three ran from the bathtub and jumped into a ditch.

She said today that she was a little sore but OK. Her boyfriend was undergoing surgery for injuries he'd suffered.

'Pressure in Your Ears Was Unbelievable'

"We ducked underneath the desk in the E.R.," said Sue Hall, the nurse on call Sunday evening at St. John's Regional Medical Center in Joplin. "The pediatric crash cart, we found outside. We believe it was swept outside. The pressure in your ears was unbelievable."

Meanwhile at the hospital, Rob Pace held onto a door, trying desperately to keep it shut against the tornado's suction.

"I heard people talk about a building and how it breathes when it's on fire," he said. "It felt like that building was breathing and that door would move in and out."

He said he could feel the suction pulling him. "We just moved in and out with the door. The door never came open," Pace said. "It's an automatic locking door. Essentially I was leaning into that door and one of the pilots was basically holding on to me."

Dr. Ronny Smalling looked out the window and saw the tornado coming. "I went over to the window. The clouds were black," he said. "Everything was blowing. Wind was blowing and trees were blowing. Then I saw things fall out of the sky, like a roof top fell out of the sky."

Joplin, Mo. Tornado: 'I Really Thought That I May Die'

He said he could feel the tornado's suction in his lungs. "Almost like a drop in barometric pressure," Smalling said. "If you dive 30 feet in water, your ears are hurting. ... I really thought that I may die, [that] this may be my time."

"After it lasted 90 seconds, we heard the hail," Smalling said. He said that after the twister left, the hospital looked like an atomic bomb had detonated. "Every single floor was completely destroyed and all of the windows were blown out. We have no hospital right now."

"Before there were beautiful, 100-year-old oak trees in an established neighborhood," Smalling said. "As far as I could see to the west and as far as I could see to the east, at least a mile wide, there was nothing but dirt, mangled trees and cars, and the fire trucks began to roll in."

ABC News staff contributed to this article.

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Rance Junge had the surprise of his life when he opened the back door of his Pronto pharmacy in Joplin, Mo., Sunday evening, exposing a scene from another world. "It was just one big wall," he said of the nearly mile-wide tornado. "You couldn't see a funnel. It was just so massive."

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this tornado had killed 89 people yesterday afternoon

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The 2011 Joplin tornado was a catastrophic EF5-rated multiple-vortex tornado that struck Joplin, Missouri, late in the afternoon of Sunday, May 22, 2011. It was part of a larger late-May tornado outbreak and reached a maximum width of nearly 1 mile (1.6 km) during its path through the southern part of the city. -zoe

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It was the third tornado to strike Joplin since May 1971. Overall, the tornado killed 158 people (with an additional three indirect deaths), injured some 1,150 others, and caused damages amounting to a total of $2.8 billion.

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Hospital Aftermath in Joplin Before and after -zoe

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Kierstin

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Joplin Tornado Damage Aftermath - zoe