Louis area. Property damage in this storm exceeded $2.4 billion in 2010 dollars. Deaths from hail are rare — the last known death caused by hail in the U.S. was in the year 2000, when a man was ...

The city had been basking in temperatures of more than 30C. It has been hit by hail storms before, but seldom this heavy. Hailstorms form when warm, moist air from the surface rises upwards ...