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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.
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 ] Peak tornado activity occurs between February and May, but storms can and have produced tornadoes in the winter.
Part of the tornado outbreak of April 8–9, 2015. Throughout the evening hours of April 9, 2015, an extremely violent and long-lived multiple-vortex tornado tore through the communities near Rochelle and in Fairdale, Illinois. Part of a larger severe weather event that impacted the Central United States, the tornado first touched down in Lee ...
The Chicago area is cleaning up. 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 ...
The tornado warning issued for DuPage, Cook, and Will counties. The Storm Prediction Center had issued an Enhanced (3/5) risk for severe weather over extreme eastern Iowa, northern Illinois and Indiana, southern Michigan, and extreme northwest Ohio for the potential of severe weather, focused on damaging straight-line winds, with the potential for isolated large hail and non-significant tornadoes.
A widespread, deadly, and historic [5] tornado outbreak affected large portions of the Midwestern, Southern and Eastern United States on March 31 and April 1, 2023, the result of an extratropical cyclone that also produced blizzard conditions in the Upper Midwest. The Storm Prediction Center (SPC) issued a rare high risk for severe weather in ...
A year after a deadly tornado ripped through Belvidere and caved in the Apollo Theatre's roof, there are nearly a dozen unresolved lawsuits. Deadly Illinois tornado left behind scars, trauma and ...
The tornadoes were part of a larger system that wreaked havoc from Arkansas to Iowa and Illinois and moved into Tennessee by the evening. Nearly 60 preliminary tornado reports were sent to the ...