![Houses such as this one were reduced to a pile of debris and rubble by the destructive winds of Friday's storm. (Photos by Paul Lisker) The severe storm leveled houses and left a path of destruction. (Paul Lisker)](https://www.chsglobe.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Tornado-Aftermath-491-450x300.jpg)
This past Friday night, April 22, St. Louis was pummeled by a severe storm that produced high winds, torrential rain, piercing hail, intense lightning, and several formidable tornadoes.
The Globe’s Paul Lisker ventured a short distance northwest from Clayton to the area surrounding Lambert St. Louis International Airport, where he discovered a path of devastation, destruction and havoc. Shattered windows, bent highway signs, leveled building, and fallen trees littered the area as a testament to the violence of the storm.
Fortunately, no lives were lost in the storm.
Click and browse through his photos below, taken in the counties of Maryland Heights and Bridgeton: