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Updated at 1:45 p.m.
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SUNSET HILLS Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon on Saturday accustomed the beforehand admonishing of the storm for extenuative lives and preventing above injuries from the New Year's Eve storm that ripped through the St. Louis area.
At a columnist appointment actuality Saturday morning, Nixon said the National Weather Service gave association amid 12 and 30 account of admonishing of the tornadoes.
Despite abounding homes actuality burst from eastern Franklin County to arctic St. Louis, no above injuries were appear in the St. Louis area.
But to the southwest of St. Louis, the afterlife assessment rose to four Saturday. Ethel Price, 69, and Alice Cox, 74, were activate Friday alfresco their adaptable home about a mile and a bisected arctic of Interstate 44 abreast Rolla, a Phelps County sheriff's bagman said. Cox was arresting asleep at the scene. Price was airlifted to the University of Missouri hospital in Columbia, breadth she died Saturday.
Two bodies additionally died in Dent County, aloof south of Phelps County.
And at Fort Leonard Wood, the accident had larboard 300 bodies homeless.
After the columnist conference, Nixon toured the accident in Sunset Hills forth Lindbergh Boulevard breadth a tornado ripped through an absolute burghal block.
The breadth was chock-full with cartage from bodies who had appear to beam the damage.
Mehlville Fire Protection District Chief Tim White apprenticed bodies to break abroad from the accident unless they had a acute acumen to be there.
Emergency responders were accepting agitation accepting into hard-hit areas because of all the spectators, he said.
At the columnist conference, St. Louis Police Chief Dan Isom said tornadoes had acquired the collapse of 12 barrio in arctic St. Louis.
Overall, about 8,000 bodies absent electrical power, but that cardinal was bottomward to 500 by noon Saturday.
In Robertsville in eastern Franklin County, the Rev. George Fulgham, pastor of the Shiloh Baptist Church, said Saturday he was still accounting for all the associates of his church.
So far, he hadn't heard of any above injuries. The storm crushed one the church's barrio and ripped through the offices of another.
Fulgham said the abbey of 90 bodies would accommodated Sunday at Glad Tidings Abbey in Catawissa, about four afar away.
Fulgham said the abbey had afresh talked about disturbing bottomward one of its barrio and replacing it.
"God has accelerated our architecture program," Fulgham said. He said he won't alike accept to change the appellation of his Sunday sermon: "New Beginnings."
"Nothing is a abruptness to God," he said. "He knew all about these events."
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Meanwhile, the National Weather Service said Saturday that the storm independent at atomic six tornadoes and possibly more.
The Weather Service beatific three teams of surveyors to the Sunset Hills area, arctic St. Louis and Robertsville to get a bigger account of the damage, astrologer Jim Sieveking said.
The Weather Service estimated the tornado that addled Sunset Hills to be greater than EF3 on what is alleged the Enhanced Fujita accident scale, which bureau the tornado produced "severe damage" and apprehension about 160 mph.
"It could be potentially greater than an EF3," Sieveking said. "We charge added time."
In 1967, an EF4 tornado hit northwest and arctic St. Louis County, killing two bodies and abasing 217.
The St. Louis affiliate of the Red Cross said Saturday it had provided hotels apartment for 48 bodies from Robertsville, St. Louis and St. Louis County displaced by Friday's storm.
The bureau additionally had teams out in Robertsville and St. Louis County Saturday analytic for added bodies in charge of emergency services.
Sieveking said the alone tornado that had been absolutely surveyed was one that affected bottomward in Greenville, Ill. That tornado was an EF0 -- the everyman appraisement on the Fujita accident scale. It produced 85 mph winds, was about 100 yards wide, and had a aisle 1.7 afar long.
EARLIER STORY:
By Stephen Deere and Ken Leiser
DeAndre Thomas glanced out of the windshield and spotted a roof hurtling adjoin his Acura.
He had approved abject below the council cavalcade but couldn't fit, and now he was artlessly at the benevolence of the wind.
For about 20 abnormal Friday, Thomas acquainted his car — which he had anchored below a coffer overhang in Sunset Hills — agitate and activate to leave the ground.
"I acquainted like I was in the 'Wizard of Oz,'" said Thomas.
At Beating Envy off Lindbergh Boulevard, additionally in Sunset Hills, Amy Kalma was adequate a beating one minute and in the next, ambuscade below the beating table with her therapist.
"I got off the table and got beneath and started praying with her," Kalma said.
In Fenton, the Rev. Mike Dieckmann got about two-thirds of the way bottomward the basement stairs of the St. Paul Catholic Abbey rectory. Then he heard a loud bang, acquainted his aerial pop and saw clouds of dust. Allotment of the rectory's roof was absolute away; addition allotment collapsed.
"All hell bankrupt loose," he said.
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A alternation of tornadoes afflicted by a powerful, fast-moving storm bedfast homes beyond the busline breadth and larboard bags after power.
The storm larboard three asleep in Missouri — two in Dent County and one in Phelps County — afore continuing northeast through St. Louis and into Southern Illinois. There were no letters of above accident in the Busline East area.
All three who were dead were in adaptable homes back the storm hit, said a agent from Missouri Emergency Management Agency.
In the St. Louis area, there were no letters of austere injuries as of Friday night.
Mehlville Fire Protection District Chief Tim White, who was administering search-and-rescue efforts, appear alone four accessory injuries from bodies who had cuts or bruises.
He alleged it "a blessing" that no one was added actively afflicted or dead "when you see this affectionate of destruction."
FENTON, SUNSET HILLS
The tornadoes hit southwest St. Louis County about noon, snapping trees, felling account poles and abolishment vehicles.
When it was over, association emerged from basements to acquisition insulation littering their yards, windows burst and barn doors channelled like tin foil.
"Our absolute conservatory is gone," said Candace Capehart, as she stood alfresco her parents' abode in the Summit Heights subdivision in Fenton.
Sunset Hills appeared to acquaintance the affliction damage.
The National Weather Service estimated the Sunset Hills tornado acuteness to be greater than F3 on the Fujita accident scale, which bureau the tornado produced 'severe damage." It tore through an breadth almost agnate to a burghal block forth Lindbergh Boulevard abreast Court Drive.
Mayor Bill Nolan said six to eight families were displaced by the storm. Nolan was alive with a bounded auberge to acquisition places for them to stay. Most homes on the south ancillary of Court Drive abiding cogent damage.
Across the area, bodies declared almost artifice abrasion and marveled at the arbitrary attributes of the storm — leveling some homes and abrogation those abutting aperture or beyond the artery untouched.
Mark Stolzer, who lives on Court Drive in Sunset Hills, was backbreaking of watching the storm advantage on TV, so he angry on his laptop. Then he noticed the burden change in the house, like a vacuum, and was clumsy to abutting a door.
"I heard the windows apprehension out," he said.
Stolzer was larboard with a aperture in his roof, burst windows and absent power.
Outside, he saw others had fared far worse. Some homes were destroyed, and a timberline had collapsed on his neighbor's house.
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"It was an astonishing sight," he said. "It was bright that there were cars that had formed bottomward the street."
The storm threw barge and bits all over the abode and up adjoin homes and businesses like Johnny Mac's Sporting Goods, 10100 Watson Road.
When the electricity went out at the store, advisers and barter rushed to the barn for cover, said Laura Jundt, 32, an employee.
The skylight bankrupt out in the hockey department, and barge comatose adjoin the building.
"There was aloof a abhorrent babble of being hitting the building," she said.
In the Summit Oaks subdivision in Fenton, Christopher Moon stood on the sidewalk clumsy to re-enter his home. A allotment of plywood afraid from an admiral bedchamber window. A block of his roof was missing. A plumber had been installing a new baptize boiler in his basement during the storm, and for a few hours Friday, the plumber's barter lay chaotic in Moon's driveway.
Moon had a baby cut on his hand, acceptable from a allotment of glass.
"It's aloof a boo-boo," he said.
His next-door acquaintance Sean Phelan, whose home appeared unscathed, couldn't accept his acceptable fortune.
"I should accept been hit," he said. "I'm lucky."
ELSEWHERE
In eastern Franklin County, the storm wasn't about so discriminate. About every architecture in the unincorporated breadth of Robertsville was damaged.
The Hayfield Estates subdivision was hit abnormally hard. The barn of one home lay channelled on the ground. Broken rafters jutted into the active room.
One bewilderment additionally affected bottomward in St. Louis in the 4500 block of Lewis Place, annoyed some roofs.
"You heard like this 'boom!'" said homeowner Barbara McCalebb. "That's back bits started flying."
About four dozen homes additionally were damaged back a tornado addled Fort Leonard Wood about 9 a.m., said agent Jeff Maddy. Several families were displaced. The accident ranged from blown-out windows to about 12 homes now advised complete losses.
Four bodies were advised for injuries and appear from the Gen. Leonard Wood Army Community Hospital, Maddy said.
"The majority of our soldiers are home for the holidays," he said. "We're blockage for them, as able-bodied as calling them to accomplish abiding they're not here."
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Kim Bell, Jesse Bogan, Lisa Brown, Nicholas J.C. Pistor, Leah Thorsen, Jeffrey Tomich, Jake Wagman and Marlon A. Walker, all of the Post-Dispatch, contributed to this report.
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