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Shirley Harper, 88, was named as the first victim killed in the dust storm accident on interstate 55 near Springfield, Illinois
A dust storm in central Illinois Monday morning, May 1 created "zero visibility" conditions, triggering a fiery 72-vehicle pileup on Interstate 55 that killed seven people and injured more than 35 ...
A massive dust storm caused several vehicle pileup on Interstate 55 south of Springfield, Illinois leading to multiple fatalities, according to police.. The multiple crashes occurred on Monday ...
It hit Springfield, Illinois head-on with over 80 mph winds and it prompted a tornado warning although no touchdown was confirmed. The storm then made an odd southwesterly turn which put it on a collision course with St. Louis. After hitting St. Louis, the storm stayed on a southwesterly track through the Ozarks of south-central Missouri.
The death toll from numerous crashes on Interstate 55 that occurred amid a blinding May 1 dust storm has risen to eight, a coroner said Wednesday. Ruth Rau, 81, of Sorento, who was a passenger in ...
The final tornado to occur in Illinois during the outbreak was an F2 that tracked though White County, killing one person and injuring 10 others. [ 7 ] May 25, 1896 – A violent and destructive F4 tornado moved through Ogle County , destroying a church and killing 4 people. [ 8 ]
The last dust storm to hit central Illinois happened in 2017, causing the shut down eastbound Interstate 72 at the Morgan-Sangamon county line and eastbound Illinois 104 at Auburn. One death was ...
In Ford County along Illinois Route 9, power poles were snapped and damage to vehicles was recorded and attributed to a microburst which had winds between 85 and 100 mph (137 and 161 km/h). In Iroquois County, most of a cattle building was blown into a field just west of Illinois Route 1 near Milford. This microburst had reported winds of 90 ...