Marios Wallace
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That fourth picture you have attached there is not from Defiance, it's from Powell Street, Bowling Green, KY. Near where the Duplex was swept away. You can actually find this area from this livestream on facebookSt. Louis got extremely lucky that night, and I think that gets overlooked. The metro area is sandwiched between the paths of the Defiance, MO EF3 to the west and the Edwardsville, IL EF3 to the east. If a tornado had occurred between those two, it very likely would have impacted or come very close to impacting areas hit by the 2011 Good Friday EF4. The NWS Office and radar site in Weldon Springs came very close to a direct hit by the Defiance tornado, which passed just to the south.
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Devastation produced by the Defiance EF3
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Aftermath of the Amazon facility near Edwardsville, IL; the site of six fatalities.
An addition five significant tornadoes would occur in Illinois that night, which makes the northern portion of the outbreak impressive in and of itself, but of course it wasn't comparable to the unbelievable violence that occurred further south.
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Significant tree damage produced by a long-tracked EF2 near Ramsay, IL.