ST. LOUIS, MO (KMOX) - It's going to be a warmer start to the week, but not warm enough that storms are forecast. KMOX looks back 55 years ago when January weather conditions were deadly.
According to National Weather Service historical data, just before 7 p.m. the evening of January 24th, 1967 a tornado touched down in western St. Louis County at Olive Street Road, first damaging a nursing home.
The tornado would ultimately tear a 21 mile path of destruction across the metro over the next 35 minutes impacting communities such as Bridgeton, Maryland Heights, St. Ann, Ferguson and Dellwood. The tornado tracked just south of the airport, finally losing steam northeast of Spanish Lake.
Click here to read the NWS report on the January 24, 1967 F4 Tornado
The National Weather Service says there were only three fatalities reported. 216 people were injured.
168 homes were destroyed, another 258 had major damage, and more than 14-hundred suffered minor damage. At least 600 businesses were damaged or destroyed.
The tornado was given an F4 rating and ranks as the 4th worst tornado in history to hit the St. Louis Metropolitan area. By the way, at that time the National Weather Service was called the Weather Bureau.
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