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Damage was noted to several homes in the northern part of St. Louis County north of the path of the F4 tornado below. The damage was posthumously rated F0 with losses totaling $250. [2] [5] [11] F4 Crescent, MO to Northwest St. Louis, MO, to S of Madison, IL: St. Louis Co. (MO), St. Louis City (MO), St. Clair (IL), Madison (IL) MO, IL
An F2 tornado touched down at approximately 5:25 AM in the town of Mattoon, Illinois. Winds reached around 152 miles per hour and damaged over 90 homes damaged and eight homes and six businesses were destroyed. Tornado Warnings were in effect but had expired at 5:00 AM leaving no warning from tornado sirens or trained spotters in the field.
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.
The 1998 Comfrey–St. Peter tornado outbreak was an unseasonably-strong tornado outbreak which affected the Upper Midwest region of the United States on March 29, 1998. A strong area of low pressure combined with a warm front and favorable upper-level dynamics to produce 16 tornadoes across the region—14 in Minnesota and two in Wisconsin.
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The St. Louis tornado was the first in a slew of significant (F2+) tornadoes that occurred across the region. [18] An F3 tornado hit Bruceville, Indiana , causing significant damage. [ 19 ] Later, a large .25 miles (0.40 km) wide F3 tornado struck Eagle Station and Sanders, Kentucky , injuring six. [ 20 ]
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The most destructive tornado of the day was a multiple vortex F3 tornado that hit the Minnesota cities of Nicollet and Kasota. It tracked a path of 33 miles, killed one person, and caused $30 million in damages. [3] This tornado passed near but did not hit the city of St. Peter, which was devastated by the 1998 Comfrey – St. Peter tornado ...