1967 St. Louis tornado outbreak

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1967 St. Louis tornado outbreak

Date of tornado outbreak:

January 24-27, 1967

Duration¹:

2 days (?)

Maximum rated tornado²:

F4 tornado

Tornadoes caused:

32 confirmed

Damages:

Unknown

Fatalities:

Areas affected:

Oklahoma, Iowa, Missouri, Illinois, Wisconsin

¹Time from first tornado to last tornado
²Most severe tornado damage; see Fujita Scale

The 1967 St. Louis tornado outbreak was the rare winter outbreak that occurred on January 24, 1967. Thirty-two tornadoes broke out from Oklahoma to Wisconsin. Fourteen tornadoes struck Iowa, nine in Missouri, eight in Illinois, and one in Wisconsin.

This outbreak broke a major record. The lone F3 tornado reported in Wisconsin was the farthest north in the United States that a tornado had ever occurred in January at the time. This would later happen again on January 7, 2008 when several tornadoes hit southeastern Wisconsin with a similar system. This outbreak is also possibly the farthest north a tornado outbreak has occurred in the winter.

The tornadoes broke ahead of a deep storm system. Several temperature records were broken in the Midwest on this day. One of the most notable tornadoes struck St. Louis County, Missouri where three people were killed and 216 were injured. The tornado ranked at F4 on the Fujita scale.

Two more tornadoes were reported in Newton County and Jasper County in southwestern Missouri just after midnight on January 26.

The next day thunderstorms produced sleet, freezing rain, and snow in St. Louis. Three days later, on January 27, a blizzard crippled Chicago, dumping 23 inches (58 cm) of snow on the city.

1 Tornado table
2 Confirmed tornadoes
3 See also
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Tornado table

Confirmed Total	Confirmed F0	Confirmed F1	Confirmed F2	Confirmed F3	Confirmed F4	Confirmed F5
33	3	4	15	5	2	0

[edit] Confirmed tornadoes

F#	Location	County	Time (UTC)	Path length	Damage
Missouri
F2	N of De Kalb	Buchanan	1750	6.1 miles (9.8 km)
F2	NW of Lawson	Clinton	1835	2.5 miles (4 km)
F3	SW of Buckner to SW of Richmond	Jackson, Ray	1840	14.5 miles (23.2 km)	2 deaths
F0	W of Polo	Caldwell	1850	2 miles (3.2 km)
F0	E of Sturges	Livingston	2000	0.1 miles (0.16 km)
F1	SW of Pennville	Sullivan	2020	7.3 miles (11.7 km)
F4	SE of Queen City, MO to SE of Pulaski, IA	Schuyler, MO, Scotland, Davis, IA	2045	25.7 miles (41.1 km)
F1	SW of Glendale	Putnam	2045	2.5 miles (4 km)
F4	NE of Chesterfield to NE of Spanish Lake	St. Louis	0055	25 miles (40 km)	3 deaths
Iowa
F3	N of Selma	Van Buren	2115	25 miles (40 km)
F1	Washington area	Washington	2145	1 miles (1.6 km)
F0	N of Winfield	Henry	2150	0.1 miles (0.16 km)
F2	N of Fredonia	Louisa	2200	3 miles (4.8 km)
F3	SW of Wever	Lee	2215	4.3 miles (6.9 km)	1 death
F2	NE of Wever	Lee	2220	3 miles (4.8 km)
F2	NE of Cairo	Louisa	2220	2 miles (3.2 km)
F2	S of Wheatland	Clinton	2245	2 miles (3.2 km)
F2	N of Dixon	Scott	2250	2 miles (3.2 km)
F2	N of Davenport	Scott	2311	2 miles (3.2 km)
F2	NW of Elvira	Clinton	2315	1 miles (1.6 km)
F2	S of Tenmile	Clinton	2315	0.1 miles (0.16 km)
Illinois
F2	N of Biggsville	Henderson	2240	5.7 miles (9.1 km)
F3	Mount Carroll area	Carroll	2330	7.4 miles (11.8 km)
F1	N of Sadora	Mason	2330	4.5 miles (7.2 km)
F3	NE of Snicarte	Mason	2330	5.1 miles (8.2 km)
F2	SW of Eureka	Tazewell, Woodford	0030	3.3 miles (5.3 km)
F2	S of Virden	Macoupin	0050	2.5 miles (4 km)
F2	NW of Metamora	Woodford	0050	2.5 miles (4 km)
F2	Champaign-Urbana area	Champaign	0240	10.4 miles (16.6 km)
Wisconsin
F3	S of Brodhead to NE of Janesville	Green, Rock	0010	24.9 miles (39.8 km)
Source: Tornado History Project - January 24, 1967 Storm Data