{"id":615026,"date":"2026-04-30T09:52:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T09:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/615026\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T09:52:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T09:52:19","slug":"three-tornadoes-confirmed-in-area-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/615026\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Tornadoes Confirmed In Area Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<br \/>\n        &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n        &#13;<\/p>\n<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/wgel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Tab4FileL-13.png\" data-caption=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Tab4FileL-13-696x392.png\"   alt=\"\" title=\"Tab4FileL (13)\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaskaskia.edu\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/KC_General-Branding_Display_Tia_25.08_300x250-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-140645\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The National Weather Service St. Louis has confirmed three tornadoes touched down in the Metro East during storms on April 27.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Damage surveys indicate all three tornadoes were relatively short-lived, with the strongest impacts coming from the two evening storms.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wallrealestate.net\/?fbclid=IwAR0ADYKW2TnJgF3KexJB7fCBSnUpqwWDhjg5TmsRIg6FqXecZZ5MA_u5-jQ\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/wall-web-1.1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"336\" height=\"280\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-90615\"\/><\/a>        &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n        &#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<br \/>\n            &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n                        Previous article<a href=\"https:\/\/wgel.com\/news\/2026\/04\/bond-county-ceo-trade-show-wednesday-2\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bond County CEO Trade Show Wednesday<\/a>Next article<a href=\"https:\/\/wgel.com\/obituaries\/2026\/04\/theresa-a-fleming\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Theresa A. Fleming<\/a>                                &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; The National Weather Service St. Louis has confirmed three tornadoes touched down in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":615027,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[192,3,79],"class_list":["post-615026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-news","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=615026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615026\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/615027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}