2011 Joplin tornado
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. It was the deadliest tornado to strike the United States since the 1947 Glazier–Higgins–Woodward tornadoes, and the seventh-deadliest overall.
Fred G. Hughes Stadium
The field was used as the first temporary morgue on May 22, 2011 after the 2011 Joplin tornado destroyed much of the community.