Finally got to view the documentary about the 2011 Joplin Tornado yesterday. The human nature of the video was very well done and I enjoyed it. The weather science aspects? Not so much.  The people of Joplin did not know the giant tornado was headed for the center of their city because of mistakes made by the National Weather Service (NWS) and local emergency management which was in charge of siren activation. This not discussed in the documentary. In fact, the people of Joplin are depicted as foolish for ignoring the sirens. The reason the sirens were ignored was because radio and TV told the populace the tornado was going to move to the north of the city (see below).  The documentary begins with far too much time spent on some silly forecast of the Biblical rapture for May 21, 2011, the day before the tornado. I had never heard of this forecast and I doubt many people care about it today. If you can fast forward through this, the program will likely be more enjoyable for yo...