2025 St. Louis tornado

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On the afternoon of May 16, 2025, an intense, extremely large, and destructive tornado tracked for more than 12 miles (19 km) through urban areas of Greater St. Louis, including Greater Ville and Fountain Park, in the U.S. state of Missouri. The massive and rainwrapped EF3 tornado, which was 1.8 mi (2.9 km) wide at its largest, inflicted widespread destruction across St. Louis, Missouri. Upon crossing the Mississippi River into Illinois, the tornado weakened rapidly and dissipated just north of downtown Granite City. Officials from the Federal Emergency Management Agency called the residential damage the largest-scale the organization had surveyed since the 2011 tornado in Joplin, Missouri. Federal aid has been requested but is pending acceptance. Volunteer engineers have been surveying homes throughout the city. Damage estimate put the damage caused by the tornado at $1.6 billion, among the highest figures for an individual tornado on record. The tornado was the first deadly tornado in...

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