JOPLIN, Mo (Reuters) - a tornado of monster which ripped through the small town of Missouri southwest of Joplin Sunday killed at least 122 people and wounded about 750. authorities, said Tuesday
The number of dead revised 118 deaths made earlier Tuesday and makes it the giant tornado the eighth deadliest in the history of the United States, according to officials speaking at a press conference of.
The authorities also said that Joplin tornado has been upgraded to an EF-5, or the best possible rating on the enhanced Fujita of the power of the Tornado and the intensity scale. Joplin tornado had previously been assessed as an EF-4.
EF-5 tornado are rare in the United States, but already this year there were at least four - two in Mississippi, Alabama last month and Joplin. They are so destructive that experts have said that they can transform a House into an air missile. During the Joplin tornado winds were estimated at up to 200 miles per hour.
The tornado damaged Joplin a approximately 8 000 structures in the town of about 50,000, said authorities.
(Megan Gates reports;) Written by Greg McCune. (Editing by Jerry Norton)
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