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As of Monday morning, 80 of the over 100 reported tornadoes from Friday have already been confirmed by National Weather Service (NWS) officials, including one EF4 tornado in southeastern Iowa with ...
At least two tornadoes were reported in Illinois on Friday afternoon, one of which was spotted near Eureka, about 17 miles northeast of Peoria. The second was spotted in Pleasant Plains in ...
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]
The 2012 Leap Day tornado outbreak was a significant and deadly tornado outbreak on February 28 and February 29, 2012. It is so called because the second day was a leap day . It caused severe damage in several regions, especially the Great Plains and Ohio Valley regions.
The tornado outbreak of April 8–9, 2015 was a relatively small but damaging outbreak of tornadoes that occurred in parts of the Great Plains and in the Midwestern United States. 27 tornadoes were confirmed during the two days, most of them weak, however a select few of them were powerful and damaging.
An 'extreme' risk of severe weather, including tornadoes, was issued by AccuWeather Monday morning, which is rare and reserved for the most d Dangerous outbreak of tornadoes in the Plains will ...
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]
The number of filtered reports of severe weather for the stretch spanning April 26-28 was 485, of which 159 were tornado reports, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ...