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 of snow on the city.
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