Technical Investigation of the May 22, 2011, Tornado in Joplin, Missouri. Progress Report, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).

摘要

Following a preliminary reconnaissance that began on May 24, 2011, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced on June 29, 2011, that it would conduct a technical investigation of the tornado that struck Joplin, MO, on May 22, 2011. In November 2011, NIST released a draft plan for the study and briefed the National Construction Safety Team (NCST) Advisory Committee on the progress of the investigation in a meeting that was open to the pub-lic. This report summarizes the progress made by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in its technical investigation of the tornado that struck Joplin, MO, on May 22, 2011 (re-ferred to after this point as the Joplin tornado).