The tornado strafed a 22-mile (35-kilometer) stretch of land and destroyed much of the tiny rural village of Glenallen shortly after 3:30 a.m. Wednesday.
A tornado ripped through southeastern Missouri before dawn on Wednesday, killing at least five people and causing widespread destruction as the third in a series of deadly massive storms over the past two weeks struck the nation's heartland.
I asked you guys the other day what you remembered about the tornado that hit our area on May 4, 1977. It took a few days, but there have been a lot of very interesting, very scary stories that came straight from you.