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(CNN) -- Authorities shut down a important airport in St. Louis afterward heavy winds from a severe storm occasioned premonitory harm, minced windows and sent debris raining down above travelers.

The Lambert-St. Louis International Airport is closed indefinitely meantime officials investigate dispose left after by a storm that struck approximately 8:15 afternoon Friday, St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay told reporters.

"There was a reported sighting of a tornado. Although that has not been accustomed, that storm caused significant damage to the airport," he said.

Four people were transported to nearby hospitals with injuries,beats by dr dre, and paramedics remedied others at the airport, Slay said. Officials said the injuries seemed minor.

Passengers were kick with flying cup and debris as winds ripped off portion of the dome in the airport's C concourse, CNN affiliate KSDK reported.

"All the windows were busted. ...The airport looks like a battle area," Elizabeth Rastberger, 32, told CNN's iReport.

Rastberger said she had been waiting to elect up a friend while the storm hit. After one officer wailed "obtain downstairs," she took cover in a women's toilet with approximately 20 others.

"Kids were calling," she said. "A female had a busted nose. Everyone was too freaked out to speak."

The reported tornado distorted metal and blew out plate-glass windows in the airport's main extremity, spectators said.

Winds likewise blew off gates by a baggage-claim place, St. Louis County Police Chief Col. Tim Fitch told reporters.

"It's unbelievable to me namely more people weren't ache," he said.

One witness depicted a chaotic scene outside the terminal as officials evacuated passengers from at fewest 1 helicopter.

"The plane was rocking back and ahead," said Brett Knewitz of Albuquerque, New Mexico, who was on a airplane that was after hours take off from the airport when the storm hit.

Initially officials did not allow evacuated passengers into the airport, he said, because of cares that the building's roof would breakdown.Once he was allowed inside, Knewitz said he saw an impaired gate agency.

"She was bleeding favor lunatic," he said.

About 50 percent of the windows were blown out in the airport's main terminal, airport adviser Rhonda Hamm-Niebruegge said. But authorities do not believe any planes were damaged in the storm, she said.

Concourse C is secondhand at American Airlines, AirTran and Cape Air, aerodrome speaker Jeff Lea said.

The National Weather Service said witnesses believe a tornado was on the floor for several miles and observed the twister from a tower by the airport.

About 500 people were inside the airport when the storm hit, KSDK reported.

The station also reported that the storm blew the steeple off a chapel and forced authorities to close expressways.

Local hospitals reported admitting patients with cuts and bruises.
CNN's Marlena Baldacci, Taylor Ward and Greg Morrison endowed to this report.
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