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The tornado weakened to a high-end EF1 as it crossed Highway 67 and Highway 70, damaging some houses in neighborhoods to the east. [13] The tornado turned slightly north as it hit the eastern section of St. Louis Lambert International Airport at around 8:10 PM. [5] Concourse C had a large section of its roof torn off when the tornado struck.
Tornado moved through the St. Louis suburbs striking Maryland Heights, St.Ann, Lambert Field, and Spanish Lake. 168 homes were destroyed and 1740 others were damaged. Some of the homes were leveled. A nursing home was also badly damaged. [54]
Commonly referred to as Lambert Field or simply Lambert, it is the largest and busiest airport in the state of Missouri. The airport covers 3,793 acres (1,535 ha) [ 2 ] [ 3 ] of land. STL is located 14 miles (23 km) northwest of downtown St. Louis in unincorporated St. Louis County between Berkeley and Bridgeton .
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 ...
The tornado caused extensive damage to numerous facilities at Lambert–St. Louis International Airport, with injuries reported; airplanes were damaged from the high winds and terminal windows blew out. American Airlines claimed four of their jets were damaged, two significantly.
The southern U.S. has been bombarded with round after round of severe thunderstorms since mid-March, and on Wednesday, one tornado spun up that was so photogenic that even veteran storm chasers ...
Around 7 p.m. CDT, the first of four tornadoes was on the ground near the town of Morton, Texas, which is about 60 miles northwest of Lubbock, giving chasers a view they likely won't soon forget.
Lambert-St. Louis International Airport was hard hit with severe damage to numerous facilities there and injuries reported. Windows were blown out of the terminals there and airplanes were flipped in the field. Concourse C was the hardest hit, taking nearly a year to reopen; it reopened on April 2, 2012.