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A large tree uprooted by a tornado in Joliet, Illinois on July 15, 2024. Shortly after this sounding, a severe thunderstorm watch was issued, as forecasters predicted a fast-moving bowing storm system could form and bring wind gusts exceeding 85 mph (137 km/h) to northern Illinois, eastern Iowa, and southern Wisconsin. [26]
"So the unofficial count right now is 126 tornadoes across the state of Illinois, which if made official would make a record," according to Illinois climatologist Trent Ford. Ford said the current ...
A dam fails after rain, wind, tornadoes pound the Midwest. The Chicago area is cleaning up. MELISSA PEREZ WINDER, ED WHITE and JIM SALTER. July 16, 2024 at 4:58 PM. CHICAGO (AP) — Hundreds of ...
Illinois has had large tornado outbreaks in the past, the most notable being the tornado outbreak sequence of December 18–20, 1957. Illinois is vulnerable to tornadoes with an average of 35 occurring annually, which puts much of the state at around 5 tornadoes per 10,000 square miles (30,000 km 2 ) annually. [ 1 ]
Northern Illinois was the hardest-hit area, accounting for nearly 75% of the 340,000 power outages across the Midwest Tuesday morning in the wake of the storms. ... One of the tornado-warned ...
The 2013 Washington, Illinois tornado was an unusually powerful and violent tornado that caused catastrophic damage to the city of Washington and several farmsteads in rural central Illinois during the early afternoon of November 17, 2013. The tornado resulted in three fatalities and injured 125 people.
Part of the tornadoes of 2021. In the evening hours of June 20, 2021, an intense tornado affected the Chicago suburbs of Naperville, Woodridge, Darien, Burr Ridge, and Willow Springs in DuPage and Cook Counties in Illinois. The tornado struck well after dark, [2] had a path length of 14.8 mi (23.8 km) and reached a width of 600 yd (550 m), as ...
A short time later, the weather service said the Chicago forecast area was “currently tornado warning free.” Tornado touches down near Chicago's O'Hare airport, disrupting hundreds of flights ...