Tornado in St. Louis County, Missouri
Tornado April 27, 2026 · St. Louis County, Missouri
The path drawn at its surveyed width of 10 yards (0.01 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.
What the National Weather Service wrote
A video from Alton showed the vortex of a waterspout tornado dissipating as it moved onshore of the Lincoln Shields Recreation Area.
The wider storm
Multiple rounds of severe thunderstorms passed through the region for nearly the entirety of April 27th. The afternoon round was expected to be the most volatile, with an environment primed for high-end severe weather reflected by an areawide SPC Moderate Risk. What culminated was widespread large to giant hail, wind damage, and two tornadoes in Missouri.
Began near Ft Bellefontaine (38.8816, -90.2002).
Other tornadoes from the same storm system
1 more tornado the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.
Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1332086. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.
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