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1953 Waco tornado outbreak [1] F4 St. Louis, Missouri: February 10, 1959 21 St. Louis tornado outbreak of February 1959 [1] F3 Galveston, Texas: September 21, 1961 0 Hurricane Carla tornado outbreak — Shortly after a comparable F4 tornado killed 8, an F3 tornado damaged commercial buildings in Galveston. [28] F5 Topeka, Kansas: June 8, 1966 17
On Dec. 18, 1957, 67 years ago today, an outbreak of strong tornadoes tore through southern Illinois and eastern Missouri. The town of Sunfield, Illinois, about 65 miles southeast of St. Louis ...
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.
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.
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 ...
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 ...
Newspaper coverage of the tornado. The town hospital in Murphysboro, where several hundred were injured, was ill-equipped to deal with the casualties, prompting hundreds to be shipped out to other towns by train once the lines were cleared. The most seriously injured were sent by train to Barnes Hospital in St. Louis. [33]
"There continue to be tornado warnings in areas of Missouri," according to the agency. "Have multiple ways to get alerts and seek safe shelter when alerted." In a tweet , the state highway patrol ...