<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Joplin_tornado" id="mwAbM" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="2011 Joplin tornado">An EF5 tornado</a> strikes <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joplin,_Missouri" id="mwAbQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Joplin, Missouri">Joplin, Missouri</a>, killing 158 people and wreaking $2.8<span id="mwAbU" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>billion in damages, the costliest and seventh-deadliest single tornado in U.S. history.