The airport officially closed around 9 p.m. after reports that the roof had come off the main terminal.

Most of the damage in Ferguson runs along Chambers Road from West Florissant Avenue to New Florissant Road.

On Elizabeth Avenue, a tornado destroyed the roof to Ferguson Christian Church, where about 35 people were watching Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ" movie.

Preacher Stacey Garner said his wife called to warn him of the storm. A church member came in saying a funnel cloud was visible outside. Garner said he then got everyone downstairs into the basement.

"We felt the building shake," he said. "We felt an updraft and a woosh. We felt dust, and then we were getting wet with rain."

Everyone at the church was OK, but Elizabeth Avenue, and the cross street Royal Avenue, is littered with downed trees and telephone poles. Across Royal from the church, a two-story brick home is without its roof and the top of it's second floor.

Neighbors said everyone in the home was all right.

Storms peppered parts of the metro area with hail and heavy rain this morning.