2013 St. Paul, Minnesota Tornado

Information
From 1960 to 2010, only three tornadoes have ever struck the St. Paul, Minnesota area directly, but each one was stronger than another consecutively. Out of all four known tornadoes to strike as of 2017 {a tornado in 2018 broke that streak as only an EF1 with no fatalities or injuries}, this one was by far the strongest and deadliest.

Life Span
At around 9:33 AM Central Daylight Time, on July 2nd, 2013, the National Weather Service in Chanhassen issued a PDS Tornado Watch for everywhere within a 50-mile radius of Minneapolis, followed by a Severe Thunderstorm Warning just 5 minutes later. Around 90 minutes passed, then, at 11:07 AM Central Daylight Time, a tornado warning was issued for Ramsey and Dakota Counties until noon. This gave the residents of St. Paul and surrounding areas to take shelter 22 minutes in advance. The tornado then formed quickly in a thin stovepipe-like tornado about 90 metres {almost 300 feet} wide, and then rapidly intensified from there, at 11:29 AM Central Daylight Time. It caused significant damage to the town of Lilydale. In the city of 656 at the time, out of around 300 households as of then, 29 were destroyed, 155 were damaged.The image in the infobox was when the tornado was moving just out of Lilydale, and hitting several parts of West St. Paul, before rapidly turning directly north and slamming into suburban areas of St. Paul just 5 minutes later. As of then, nobody was confirmed killed, but at least two people went missing and 23 were injured; nine critically.

Right then, a Tornado Emergency was immediately issued for St. Paul, with wording like "You could easily be killed if not underground or in a tornado shelter." The twister then intensified for the next several minutes, hitting St Paul's suburbs directly. It started hitting St. Paul at around 11:40 AM, quickly destroying several homes within minutes. It then was about to hit the downtown St. Paul area, but dissipated just in time, after 26 hellish minutes and around 9.3 miles of being on the ground.

Aftermath
Multiple neighbourhoods and homes received substantial damage across multiple areas of southern parts of St. Paul. Six more people went missing, and all eleven fatalities took place in St. Paul itself. Out of 316 injuries, 293 were in St. Paul alone, with over 600 homes destroyed, well over 1,100+ damaged, and many other structures, such as businesses, stores, and/or schools, also received significant to extensive severe damage from the tornado. All in all, over $40 million in damage was directly caused by the tornado, within a 9-mile path.