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By far the most destructive and significant tornado of the outbreak was a violent, very high-end EF4 wedge tornado that tore through parts of Rochelle, Illinois and the adjacent town, Fairdale, Illinois. The tornado began as a small cone-shaped tornado, causing mostly minor damage near Franklin Grove and Ashton, though a Crest Foods plant ...
Illinois has had large tornado outbreaks in the past, including the tornado outbreak sequence of December 18–20, 1957 and the 1967 Oak Lawn tornado outbreak. 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]
A tornado formed at the northern outskirts of Sugar Grove and immediately impacted Waubonsee Community College, damaging trees, signs, and a light pole. The tornado then moved through a more sparsely-populated area and widened, snapping multiple trees, damaging a grain silo, and pushing a large barn off its foundation.
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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 ...
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At 1:50 p.m. CDT (18:50 UTC), the SPC issued a tornado watch for northern and central Illinois, far northwestern Indiana, far southern Wisconsin, and portions of Lake Michigan. A 60% chance of two or more tornadoes was assessed across the watch box, with a 40% chance of at least one strong tornado. [8]
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