Drone video shows extensive tornado damage in St. Louis

ST. LOUIS – Daylight Saturday greeting revealed the grade of tornado harm successful St. Louis aft the twister devastated parts of the metropolis aboriginal Friday evening, leaving 5 dormant and 38 injured.

Drone footage changeable implicit the northwest broadside of the metropolis shows Centennial Christian Church with a missing steeple and parts of its extortion collapsed.

People tin beryllium seen successful beforehand of the religion picking up and clearing immoderate of the ceramic and rubble the tornado had blasted disconnected of the church.

Drone footage of Centennial Christian Church aft the tornado.

(Katie Byrne / FOX Weather)

The harm extends good beyond the building, arsenic a 70-year-old pistillate died aft getting trapped wrong when the tornado struck and destroyed the church.

"It’s devastating to perceive that idiosyncratic died from the church," St. Louis nonmigratory Maurice Jones told FOX Weather. "We’re each conscionable trying to enactment beingness backmost unneurotic astatine this point."

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Dozens of different homes adjacent could beryllium seen without their roofs, exposing families to the elements. They were portion of astatine slightest 5,000 homes successful St. Louis that experienced immoderate benignant of tempest damage, according to St. Louis Mayor Cara Spencer.

Bricks and debris successful beforehand of Centennial Christian Church.

(Katie Byrne / FOX Weather)

"The country is conscionable hard-hit from this, and I truly don’t cognize however to retrieve from this," Jones said to FOX Weather Correspondent Katie Byrne.

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At slightest 7 radical successful Missouri were killed during the storm, with astatine slightest 14 others successful Kentucky passing distant erstwhile the tempest aboriginal charged done the Bluegrass State.