5:41: Stories from the Joplin Tornado now available online

As of about 10 minutes ago, 5:41: Stories from the Joplin Tornado, written by Carthage Press Managing Editor John Hacker and me, is available online.

The book features Hacker's photographs, many taken in the moments just after the EF-5 tornado ripped through Joplin Sunday, May 22.

Other features, in addition to the stories we wrote, are first-person accounts from many of those who were in the tornado and those who came to help this city recover in the days afterward. We also included the complete text of the Joplin Tornado Memorial Service at Missouri Southern State University, the final report of the National Weather Service, and obituaries of those who died either that day or from injuries suffered during the tornado.

I will post more information later tonight.