Severe weather overnight in Missouri included a monster tornado in Sullivan that leveled several buildings to the ground as video reveals this morning.
How strong is your love? One Missouri couple can rightfully say their marriage is stronger than a tornado after they made the promise to spend a lifetime together after a twister ripped the roof off of their wedding place before the service even began.
I've been in and through the St. Louis, Missouri airport many times in my lifetime, but I've fortunately never experienced what everyone in those terminals did on this day 13 years ago when monster tornadoes devasted the St. Louis area including a direct hit on the airport.
If you've lived in Illinois or Missouri, do you sometimes feel like there is a tornado magnet under our part of America? That's likely not the case, but there are definitely some places in Illinois that are more likely to get hit by a twister than others. I've located a roundup of the top 10.
I haven't seen official confirmation from the National Weather Service in St. Louis yet, but a truck's dashcam video appears to show a tornado in a field near Vandalia, Missouri on Thursday.
We've known there is a good chance of severe weather in both Missouri and Illinois this week and now official forecasters are saying the most alarming concern for violent storms is in northeast Missouri and Tuesday is the day to watch.
Thanks to improving weather technology, we now have more warning than ever when Missouri is about to get slammed by a tornado. You would be wise to also pay attention to nature as many believe that birds know before weather radars when tornado danger is imminent.
If you don't like the weather in Missouri and Illinois, just wait a few minutes and it's almost certain to change. That looks to be true early next week as there is a strong tornadic event that models are showing is possible for both Missouri and Illinois.
I find weather intriguing yet understand very little about it and this is a great example. I've learned there are 10 Missouri towns that are more likely to get hit by a twister than any others.
Despite what my children believe, I was not around in 1957. There was one weather event that year in Missouri that has sadly been forgotten by many, but not the people of the Kansas City area who were nearly wiped off the map by a monster EF-5 killer twister.