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Just leaving a note about why I moved the page from 2011 Good Friday Tornado to 2011 St. Louis tornado. First off, the original title is way too ambiguous for a single tornado. Unlike tornado outbreaks which occur over large areas, a single tornado is generally confined to a few counties (the ones that warrant articles) and the main area impacted is reflected in the title. Additionally, there were other tornadoes that took place on the same day elsewhere, so people impacted by those may think it's a completely different event. The change in capitalization is per WP:MOS. Cyclonebiskit ( talk) 13:24, 24 April 2011 (UTC)
Are we using Template:Infobox tornado single since the article seems to convey that only the St. Louis tornado is notable, or are we using a tornado outbreak box? - Marcusmax( speak) 13:58, 24 April 2011 (UTC)
Kent Ehrhardt on KMOV reported the following storm path. I will look for a citation to support this report.
-- Dan Dassow ( talk) 15:02, 24 April 2011 (UTC)
Some relevant material there ^. / ƒETCH COMMS / 18:20, 24 April 2011 (UTC)
Here is the text that was split out of the tornado outbreak sequence due to consensus to break it up. - RunningOnBrains( talk) 11:10, 28 April 2011 (UTC)
The most destructive tornado of the first part of the outbreak hit St. Louis, Missouri and surrounding suburbs on the evening of April 22. It was the strongest to impact St. Louis County or City since January 1967, [1] was rated an EF4 at its strongest point with winds exceeding 165 mph. [2] In its 22-mile [3] track across the St. Louis metropolitan area, it damaged approximately two hundred homes, left thousands without power, and made a direct hit on the main terminal of Lambert-St. Louis International Airport, causing the airport to be completely shutdown for just under 24 hours. [4]
It is believed that the tornado that struck St. Louis' main airport also struck the community of New Melle, located in St. Charles County, about thirty miles to the west of the airport. High winds also damaged approximately fifty homes in Maryland Heights, a suburb of St. Louis. [5] [6]
At approximately 8:10PM, the tornado struck Lambert-St. Louis International Airport, the state of Missouri's largest airport. When the tornado hit, there were three aircraft on the tarmac with passengers on-board, as well as numerous passengers and other individuals in various locations inside of the airport's terminals. [4]
Lambert Airport released surveillance video showing debris swirling inside the airport. [7] It was reported that an aircraft was moved away from its jetway by the storm, with passengers still on-board. [8] One plane from Southwest Airlines was damaged when the wind pushed a conveyor belt used for loading baggage into it. American Airlines said that four of its planes were damaged, two of them significantly. One was buffeted by 80 MPH crosswinds while taxiing in from a landing when the tornado hit and the other has possible damage to its landing gear. [9] On April 23, the tornado was rated an EF2 storm at the time that it struck the airport. [2] [7]
As a result of the storm, the airport was temporarily closed by the FAA on Apr 22 at 08:54 PM CDT. The airport reopened, albeit at lower capacity, on April 23 and was expected to be at 70% capacity on April 24. [2] [10]
More than 54,000 customers of the utility company, Ameren, were left without power after the storm; more than 47,000 in Missouri and approximately 7,000 in Illinois. [11]
By 5:40am on April 24, just 21,667 customers were still without power in Missouri and 131 in Illinois. [12]
On April 24, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported over 2700 buildings severely damaged in St. Louis County, including 900 in Bridgeton, 450 in Berkeley and 1170 in Maryland Heights. [13]
There were no deaths and relatively few injuries, which has led many to say that it was a "miracle." [14] Losses from the tornado exceeded $40 million, most of which took place at the airport. [15] [16]
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It's a question that's been on my mind for some time. While this tornado was notable and would warrant an article had it occurred as an isolated event, we already have an article about the outbreak that produced it. Generally, we've only split a tornado off from its outbreak article if it was exceptionally devastating such as the 1999 and 2013 Moore tornadoes. So should this tornado be merged with the outbreak article? TornadoLGS ( talk) 22:58, 27 November 2018 (UTC)