Surprise Storm Hits St. Louis on July 19, 2006

Video taken around my house in Eureka, Missouri of an unexpected nasty storm front that passed through the St. Louis area on July 19, 2006. Luckily we had no damage or power outtage. Many in the St. Louis area lost power for weeks.

Paul W. Konopacki
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• eureka
• storm
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• missouri

[Copper20]

BTW, you had a power surge from 5:27-5:43.

[Gopherjag]

Yes the most frusterating thing was that right after the storm the tempature shot up to 102 degrees. 2 days later a second durencho hit and knocked out everything else.

i worked at a hotel at the time and i stayed one night there then they said i couldn't stay anymore and the next day i got up, got my paycheck, it took me 5 hours to cash it, get gas and get lunch. it was a scarey moment.

[petro062]

Great videos

[CooreyIsKush]

it hit on my birthday... WOOT!

[gladiatorfilm]

I think I do remember that there were some sources that quoted a total of 750,000 Ameren UE customers without power from this storm and the one that hit days later in the St.Louis metro area. They brought in help from surrounding states such as Iowa to help Ameren UE deal with such a large power outage with significant damage from downed trees and other things.

[gladiatorfilm]

If my memory serves me correct, there was a wind gust of 92 mph recorded in the St.Louis area from this storm. What was freaky was the track of the storm. It had it's origins in central Illinois and then proceeded to make a beeline southward into the St.Louis metro area. Normally thunderstorms come in from the west or southwest of St.Louis and move eastward into the Metro area.

[Tammylita]

@itjustfigures We went two weeks. :/ It was horrible. I got so sick I started hallucinating

[itjustfigures]

@RiderAndKallen Many people went without power for 7-14 days after this storm. We went 4 days without power, with temperatures in the upper 90's in the afternoons. More than the usual downed trees were lying in the streets and caving in people's homes. In St. Louis, we are very familiar with typical summer thunderstorms. This storm was NOT a typical storm!

[RiderAndKallen]

This is a typical daily Florida summer thunderstorm. Why was it hanging up in Missouri?

[hawknest8]

@howareu666 ya cahokia had a tornado touch down 92 mph winds no power for a few days not a week though for us at the time of this storm at night i was at a friends house in rolla and we saw a live national weather service radar and all we saw was purple and red on the screen we were like holy shet

[tokorev747777]

this storm was hell! if its the one im thing of. no power for like a week. and it was hot! that was miserable.

[PsYcHoFaB]

I worked at Beiner Hardware in Rockhill at the time. I hated going from one place without power or A/C to another place without A/C...