Question: What was the cost of the damages from the tornado at Joplin??
Answer:
What was the cost of the damages from the tornado at Joplin?
Overall, the tornado killed 158 people (with an additional three indirect deaths), injured some 1,150 others, and caused damages amounting to a total of $2.8 billion. It was the deadliest tornado to strike the United States since the 1947 Glazier–Higgins–Woodward tornadoes, and the seventh-deadliest overall. 
$2.8 billion