Thunderstorm Wind — Cole, Missouri

2021-12-10 · near St Thomas, Cole, Missouri

Event narrative

Thunderstorm winds blew off part of a metal roof on a storage building in St. Thomas. Just southeast of Osage Bend, a large tree with a shallow root ball was tipped over. Also, numerous large tree limbs were snapped off.

Wider weather episode

Numerous severe thunderstorms formed ahead of an approaching cold front during the late afternoon and evening of Friday December 10th, 2021. Large hail, damaging winds and five tornadoes occurred across central and eastern Missouri as well as south central Illinois. Unfortunately two of the tornadoes were very strong (rated EF-3 on the Enhanced Fujita Scale) and responsible for 7 fatalities (one near Defiance, Missouri and six at an Amazon Facility near Edwardsville, Illinois). The Defiance, MO tornado tracked within one mile of the NWS St. Louis office in the Missouri Research Park near Weldon Spring, MO leading to the staff sheltering while NWS Kansas City provided service backup. This is only the third time in the office's existence that the staff had to shelter. The damage from the Defiance, MO EF3 tornado was estimated at $684,186 and is unknown for the remaining tracks at this time but early estimates are well into the millions due to the damage sustained at the Amazon facility near Edwardsville, IL.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 994641. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.