Leading edge of May 22nd Tornado
By: Gary Bandy
Updated: June 5, 2011
Taken the afternoon of May 22nd from North Main Street heading south, between 171 and downtown Joplin. Cate Loch was on her way home from KC, and at this time she only knew that an approaching storm had the possibility of producing baseball sized hail. While she was concentrating on the front portion of the cloud formation, sheI may have gotten a picture of the leading edge of the tornado. The actual tornado hit approximately 20 minutes later, maybe 10 minutes after she reached her home, 4 minutes from St. John's Hospital.
