A crew with SIC Midwest Roofing secures a tarp on an auxiliary building of Ashland Elementary School on Sunday May, 18, 2025.

St. Louis (CNN) — Craig Cole was at the convenience store in his neighborhood of Fountain Park when the storm alerts went off on his phone. He ran to his royal blue Ram truck parked outside.

As the St. Louis area cleans up following Friday’s tornado that killed five people and damaged thousands of homes, Missouri ...