where did st louis tornado hit?
St. Louis
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 Meanwhile , the squall line that developed from near Dallas to Kansas City moved eastward throughout the late evening and overnight hours causing numerous reports of damaging wind along with many spin @-@ up tornadoes from Louisiana to Ohio and Indiana . It then moved through the southeast U.S. during the early morning hours . Additional strong thunderstorms developed ahead of the front across the southeast during the overnight and early morning hours . A record ( at the time ) of five tornado emergency declarations were issued on February 5 ; four for Tennessee , and one in Alabama . 

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 The United States Storm Prediction Center first noted a possible New Year 's Eve severe weather event as early as December 25 , 2010 . These forecasts gained confidence as the event approached , with a focus on the Ozarks and adjacent areas . Supercells developed in this area during the night of December 30 and tracked across central Missouri , producing several tornadoes and large hail . However , the bulk of activity during the outbreak was a result of a long line of supercells that tracked from Oklahoma to Illinois , producing five EF3 tornadoes . One of these tracked through northwestern Arkansas , killing four . Another tore through eastern sections of Fort Leonard Wood in Missouri , destroying 159 homes and causing US $ 90 million in damage , making it the costliest tornado of the outbreak . A separate cluster of storms later developed in Louisiana before tracking into Mississippi , producing several tornadoes across southern and central regions of the state on January 1 . 

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 Upon making its first landfall in the United States , the hurricane spawned a total of 117 tornadoes , which is the largest tornado outbreak associated with a tropical cyclone ; this broke the previous record of 115 set by Hurricane Beulah in 1967 . 

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 The storm , rated F4 on the Fujita scale , also caused more than $ 400 million in property damage along an 11 @.@ 3 @-@ mile ( 18 @.@ 2 km ) path , and ranks as the ninth most destructive tornado in American history . 

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 It was the first tropical cyclone to threaten the New Orleans area after the destructive 2005 hurricane season and Hurricane Katrina . Overall impact from the cyclone was minor and largely limited to light rainfall . However , the precursor system spawned a damaging tornado in Eustis , Florida , where 20 houses were destroyed and 30 more were damaged . Damage was estimated at $ 6 @.@ 2 million . 
