ST. LOUIS A tornado with peak winds reaching 150 mph struck the City of St. Louis on Friday afternoon, May 16, 2025, causing significant damage and casualties,

Once the assessment is complete, Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe will ask President Donald Trump for federal assistance for individual homeowners and renters.

A massive tornado was spotted in the Clayton area of St Louis in Missouri on Friday. The National Weather Service issued tornado warnings for several counties across Missouri and New Jersey. Locals and storm chasers posted videos of the twister on social media,

Concordia Seminary in Clayton, near St. Louis, Missouri, was damaged after a large tornado was reported north of the city.

Confirmed tornadoes in St. Louis kill five, injure dozens, and damage thousands of structures, leaving over 80,000 without power.

At least seven people are dead in Missouri after strong supercell storms that spurred tornado warnings slammed into St. Louis on Friday. Two others died in Virginia.

Storm systems sweeping across parts of the Midwest and South have left at least 21 dead, many of them in Kentucky, with the death toll likely to rise.

In a Saturday morning press conference, the National Weather Service (NWS) said radar showed a tornado touched down just east of Clayton and moved quickly across the Mississippi River toward Granite City. Storm survey crews are on the ground now, starting in Clayton and working their way east to assess the damage.

At least seven people were killed and dozens of others were injured Friday after a storm caused significant damage in Missouri, significantly impacting the St. Louis metro area.