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(CNN) -- Flights resumed Sunday at the chief airport in St. Louis after a tornado struck, beating out power, mincing windows and bringing travelers scrambling for cover from falling debris.

A handful of incoming flights touched down at Lambert-St. Louis Airport Saturday night for the 1st time after the mighty tornado hit Friday night. Airport speaker Jeff Lea said Sunday morn that junket flights had resumed and were escaping in due time.

Airport manager Rhonda Hamm-Niebruegge told correspondents the airport's goal was to approach 70% of operations Sunday, and "I think we're there."

She said Southwest Airlines reported they are at 100% action with no cancellations at the airport. Carriers on the airport's A Concourse were at about 80%, she said.

"We can't go home. We don't have homes"


Four carriers were creature relocated from C Concourse, which underwent the maximum damage, with about half its windows blown out. Of those four, AirTran Airways and Frontier Airlines were both at about 50% in their fashionable home on B Concourse, and planned to be fully operational Monday.

On Monday, the airport's D Concourse ambition be opened to house American Airlines and Cape Air, Hamm-Niebruegge said.

As of Sunday afternoon, extra than 100 flights had departed from the airport, she said. On one mean Sunday, about 230 flights depart, she said, and "we still have a nice portion of the daytime to work."

The twister left back "an amazing track of devastation," the National Weather Service said.

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Hamm-Niebruegge said that looking at the mar Friday night, she not would have believed the airport could be open and receiving flights so soon. She said Saturday it could take a "couple of months" to entirely mend the harm.

"We think tomorrow is going to be a quite, quite busy day," she said Sunday afternoon.

Preliminary estimates show that a tornado packaging winds among 111 and 165 miles per hour hit the airport, said Wes Browning, a chief meteorologist for the weather service, Saturday.

The tornado damaged 750 homes near the airport, Gov. Jay Nixon said on Saturday. There were no fatalities reported.

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It's "absolutely extraordinary" that it tore through an airport and extremely populated districts and there were not fatalities, Nixon said. "We're talking attribute, we're no talking about detriment of life because of this. That is nought short of amazing."

Shelters were set up and other alms was offered to the many families affected by the catastrophe, said Charlie Dooley, the St. Louis county administrative.

"The see in their eyes (shows that) they muse their life has been completely destroyed," said Dooley, urging volunteers to bring an end to ... and aid. "Folks, that namely devastating."

Besides damage to family and the airport, the mighty winds also hit affairs and tore through the roof of a Ferguson cathedral, where dozens had gathered on Good Friday to watch the film "Passion of the Christ."

"We felt this vacuum, and then there was so many ruckus," said congregant Nancy Doggett.

They came up later from the basement to discern the ceiling smashed in the sanctuary. Two massive Christian crosses remained intact antagonism the tornado.

"To have this variety of damage, we're fair glad no one was ache," minister Stacy Garner said on Saturday. "Buildings tin be replaced, yet lives cannot."

In the city of Bridgeton, just northwest of the airport, Mayor Conrad Bowers had lofty compliment for crisis workmen, who he said conducted door-to-door quests after the storm hit. He said weather officials told him the tornado in Bridgeton was an EF-4 with winds of about 170 mph.

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In all, 65 structures were rendered "altogether uninhabitable," said Police Chief Donald Hood. More than 200 other homes were damaged, some severely, he said. Seven advertisement properties were destroyed and 35 sustained "actual damage."

Bowers recounted a story of a couple who went to their cellar when the sirens sounded. The male told his wife he was going to go upstairs for a strap, he said, and came back down to report, "There is no upstairs."

Officials said inspections of structures will take several days and dragging off debris will take longer.
CNN's Phil Gast, Greg Botelho,dr dre beats, Carly Costello, Marlena Baldacci, Taylor Ward and Greg Morrison contributed to this report.
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