Storms swept through the St. Louis area late Tuesday afternoon and into the evening, bringing some hail and causing scattered power outages.
Farther east, what might have been tornadoes caused roof and wall damage to some homes in the Okawville area in Washington County, Ill. The National Weather Service also received unconfirmed reports of tornadoes in nearby Clinton County.
On Wednesday, the National Weather Service will be sending a team to the Okawville area to determine if the damage was, indeed, caused by a tornado.
Two people were hospitalized in the Okawville area after a tractor-trailer overturned in high wind on Interstate 64, the Washington County sheriff's department reported. Details were not available. Another tractor-trailer also overturned in the area, the department said, but no injuries were involved.
Ameren reported more than 13,000 customers across the metro area were still without electric power about 9:30 p.m. That number dropped to about 5,900 by around midnight.
By 6:30 a.m. Wednesday morning, about 5,200 Ameren electric customers in Missouri and Illinois were still without power. In Missouri, the biggest chunk in the dark was in Bellefontaine Neighbors with outages to 1,100 customers and Tower Grove South neighborhood with about 350 outages.
Source: http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/metro/storm-dumps-rain-hail-in-st-louis-area-possible-tornadoes/article_c0f415da-5c48-5062-9dca-d280f81fdd37.html
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