Tornado, Jasper
- When
- June 28, 9:20 AM CST
- Where
- Jasper County, Joplin
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 0.2 mi
- Path width
- 40 yd
- Property damage
- $220,000
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 37.080, -94.520
Tornado in Missouri, June 28, 1999
A tornado briefly touched down in the south part of the city of Joplin. The tornado picked up a car and a small truck.
Where it happened
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- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $220,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
What happened
The episode as NWS SGF wrote it up.
A tornado briefly touched down in the south part of the city of Joplin. The tornado picked up a car and a small truck. The car was thrown into a strip mall complex damaging a corner of the building. The truck was pushed into a portion of a car wash. The car wash sustained damage to about 60 percent of the facility. Two large concrete bases for the vacuum equipment were picked up or rolled about 10 feet from their original location. The tornado also uprooted trees, blew a metal shed into a tree, completely took the roof off of one home and toppled a chimney.
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 101 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 15:21 UTC.
Event by event
1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Tornado
- A violently rotating column of air in contact with the ground and extending from a thunderstorm, filed with its path, width and Fujita or Enhanced Fujita rating from the damage survey.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
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- Flash Flood and Flooding in Kansas, June 28, 1999
- Tornado and Lightning Strike in Georgia, June 28, 1999
- Damaging Winds in Kansas, June 28, 1999
- Flash Flood in Alabama, June 28, 1999
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Michigan, June 28, 1999
- High Wind in Oklahoma, June 28, 1999
- Damaging Winds in Missouri, June 28, 1999
More
Every storm in Missouri in 1999Every state in 1999This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Missouri, 1999Warnings in Missouri, June 1999
Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5706820.