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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 saw around an inch of snow on January 26 and 27, just a couple of days after the F4 tornado tore through the city. Damage from the F4 tornado in the St. Louis area on Jan. 24, 1967
Emergency crews began searching with flashlights in the darkness for survivors
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.
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 ...
Throughout St. Louis County, the tornado killed 10, injured 170, and caused $25 million in damage. The tornado then entered St. Louis City , devastating the area. It first damaged dozens of buildings and homes in the neighborhoods of Franz Park , Hi-Pointe , and Clayton-Tamm in Northern Benton before tearing part of the roof off the St. Louis ...
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
AP Images The tornado that ransacked St. Louis on Friday left Lambert airport struggling to get back on schedule (the airport is meant to be at 100% on Tuesday). A male passenger in the hardly hit ...