{"id":2869,"date":"2015-07-20T08:00:58","date_gmt":"2015-07-20T12:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/roofingmagazine.com\/?p=2869"},"modified":"2016-06-09T09:56:24","modified_gmt":"2016-06-09T13:56:24","slug":"copper-clad-stainless-steel-replaces-tornado-damaged-roof-st-louis-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roofingmagazine.com\/copper-clad-stainless-steel-replaces-tornado-damaged-roof-st-louis-airport\/","title":{"rendered":"Copper-clad Stainless Steel Replaces a Tornado-damaged Roof at the St. Louis Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"
Hundreds of people milled about the terminals at Lambert-St. Louis International Airport on the evening of April 22, 2011. Three airplanes with passengers on board sat on the tarmac. It was business as usual at one of the largest municipal airports in the country. But meteorological conditions were anything but usual. A powerful supercell over St. Louis spawned an EF4 tornado (view the Enhanced Fujita Scale, which rates the strength of tornados by the damage caused, on page 2) packing 150-mph winds. The twister barreled directly into the airport 11 miles northwest of downtown, blowing out half the floor-to-ceiling windows in the main terminal and inflicting approximately $30 million in damages. In addition, the tornado seriously damaged part of the copper roof over Terminal 1.<\/p>\n