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The town of Sunfield, Illinois, about 65 miles southeast of St. Louis, was wiped out by one of the 25 tornadoes. It was later rated F5 after the Fujita scale was implemented in 1971.
On April 22, 2011, a violent EF4 tornado, with winds of 170 mph (270 km/h), struck the St. Louis metropolitan area. [2] The tornado, which was the strongest to hit St. Louis County or City since January 1967, moved through many suburbs and neighborhoods, damaging and destroying many homes and businesses.
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A dangerous storm system in the Midwest produced dozens of tornadoes for the second consecutive day Tuesday, demolishing a racetrack grandstand and damaging buildings in a wild ...
St. Louis, Missouri: March 8, 1871 9 See article on this tornado — The tornado killed 9 and injured a further 60 in downtown St. Louis. [1] [3] F3 Chicago, Illinois: May 6, 1876 2 A multi-vortex tornado moved through downtown Chicago, destroying several buildings. [4] F2 Kansas City, Missouri: May 13, 1883 3
At least five people have been killed after a large tornado tore through rural Missouri in the middle of the night.. The twister struck in Bollinger County, 50 miles south of St Louis, at around 3 ...
There is a long history of destructive tornadoes in the St. Louis metropolitan area.The third-deadliest, and the costliest in United States history, the 1896 St. Louis–East St. Louis tornado, injured more than one thousand people and caused at least 255 fatalities in the City of St. Louis and in East St. Louis.
Stories about a 153-year-old church in the Ben Davis neighborhood still serving its community after being devastated by fires and a tornado through the decades, or the generational caretakers of a ...
When it was developed, it was one of the most fashionable places to live. It declined after a tornado devastated the area in 1896. Later, industrial encroachment and highway construction further weakened the neighborhood. Since the 1970s, St. Louis residents have been buying and renovating the older homes in Lafayette Square.