A Missouri woman set to feature in a Netflix show about a historic tornado that hit the state vanished two days before its premiere.
Tara Fleming, 29, went missing in Tulsa, Oklahoma, according to her former boyfriend and father of her two young daughters, Steven Weersing, 30.
On Monday, Weersing filed a missing person’s report asking anyone of her whereabouts as panic about her disappearance began to grow.
Weersing and Fleming were high school friends brought together by the 2011 Joplin tornado that killed 158 and injured 1,000.
He was severely-injured by the twister and developed a flesh-eating infection. Fleming kept him company afterwards as other friends stopped bothered and romance soon flourished.
The couple later split, with their story set to be retold by Weersing as he features prominently in The Twister: Caught in the Storm, which streams on Netflix from Wednesday.
Explaining his fears for his ex on Facebook, Weersing wrote that he’d received an ‘alarming and distressing call’ telling him that Fleming was in Tulsa.
The caller added that Fleming had been robbed of her phone and purse and car and that she was very scared.
Weersing said the people who’d seen Fleming shortly before her disappearance ‘are being very suspicious’ and says her vanishing ‘isn’t making any sense.’
Tara Fleming, 29, vanished in Tulsa just days before she was due to appear in a Netflix documentary about a devastating 2011 tornado that killed 158 in Missouri
The couple were teenagers when they survived the devastating tornado that hit Joplin, Missouri on May 22, 2011 that killed more than 158 people and injured more than 1,000
He further accused those unnamed friends of ‘switching up story’s’ (sic) and claiming not to have seen Fleming.
The Tulsa Police Department told DailyMail.com that a missing person’s report on Fleming was filed early Monday but could not provide further details on the case.
Weersing later took to Facebook to say that Fleming had been found safe, but that she was stuck in Tulsa and needed help to get back to Joplin.
Fleming’s disappearance came just days before her and Weersing’s story is set to be told to a global audience, although there is no suggestion her disappearance is in any way connected to the upcoming broadcast.
The 90-minute documentary shares terrifying footage of the tornado.
Fleming was at home with her mother and brother when is roof was ripped off by the deadly tornado that was moving at more than 200mph.
At the same time, Weersing was driving with friends when he turned straight into the voracious twister.
He was critically injured with cracked ribs, punctured lungs and a flesh-eating fungus that destroyed the skin on his chest due to black mold.
He was placed in a medically induced coma and doctors did not know if he would survive. Weersing woke up three weeks later.
After several surgeries, titanium rods were placed in his chest to help support his skin.
Weersing was a stay-at-home father and Fleming was working towards her nursing degree after the twister.
Fleming admitted that she believed that she and Weersing would not have ‘gotten together unless the tornado happened.’
The Jolpin Tornado remains the seven deadliest tornado in the United State, and single deadliest tornado in the country since 1947
The twister remains one of the seven deadliest tornadoes in the country
The early years of their romance appeared to have been happy, until a dramatic development struck the pair in 2017.
That saw Weersing charged with second-degree domestic assault for allegedly choking Fleming during an argument in 2017.
The pair eventually went their separate ways: Weersing had a new love interest, a young woman named Lena Dawn and Fleming also had a new man.
Weersing’s new girlfriend Lena Dawn also posted to her Facebook her concerns about Fleming’s well-being.
‘Has anyone seen or heard from Tara Fleming‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️ She was last known to be in the Tulsa ok area. She has an active missing report case and said she was last known to be ‘walking’ in the Tulsa area but did not have a location.
She gave a description of Fleming that is approximately 5ft. 9inches tall with bleach blonde hair. She asked anyone with information to call the Tulsa or Joplin PD or to reach out to her or Weersing.
The couple had known each other since middle school
A recent photo of the 29-year-old Tara Fleming and mother of two
In March 2023, Fleming shared on her Facebook that she was in a relationship with a man named Gabe Martin.
The Jolpin Tornado remains the seven deadliest tornado in the United States, and single deadliest tornado in the country since 1947.
The tornado also was the costliest in the country’s history, with damage estimated to $2.8 billion.
