Joplin tornado

Olivia Payne of Owensboro and other members of a Western Kentucky University meteorology class had been chasing the deadly storm that struck Joplin, Mo., on Sunday evening. Ms. Payne and the other students in the WKU Field Methods in Weather Analysis class spent the day in southeast Kansas near the city of Parsons because of potential tornadic storm development and were tracking the storm that hit

The tornado that slammed Joplin, MO on May 22, like the others around the country recently, has resulted in stunning first-person video accounts. With the popularity of video capability on smartphones (not to mention digital cameras) we are now not only seeing the damage closer than ever, but we are also seeing what it's like to wait for the storm, then experience it.