The National Weather Service St. Louis has confirmed three tornadoes touched down in the Metro East during storms on April 27.
The first was a brief EF-0 near Marine at 1:41 p.m., with peak winds of 76 miles per hour and a path length of about a third of a mile.
A second tornado, rated EF-1, tracked from Mascoutah to Trenton between 7:53 and 8:03 p.m., producing winds up to 110 miles per hour and traveling nearly 10 miles.
A third EF-1 formed shortly after, from Germantown to Carlyle between 8:06 and 8:18 p.m., with peak winds also estimated at 110 miles per hour and a path stretching more than 11 miles.
Damage surveys indicate all three tornadoes were relatively short-lived, with the strongest impacts coming from the two evening storms.
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