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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 ...
Hundreds of people in a southern Illinois town were ordered to evacuate Tuesday as water rolled over the top of a dam, just one perilous result of severe weather that raged through the Midwest ...
This was one of the most intense December outbreaks in the Contiguous United States and the most intense Illinois tornado outbreak in any month. An F4 tornado struck Mt. Vernon, Illinois, an F5 tornado obliterated Sunfield, Illinois, and a long-tracked F4 struck several towns hit by the 1925 Tri-State tornado. An additional F4 tornado hit ...
The National Weather Service in Lincoln said there were reports from spotters and storm chasers of a tornado touching down in Christian County. NWS: Spotters, storm chasers reported tornado ...
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 tree uprooted by a weak tornado in Chicago on July 14. The Storm Prediction Center outlined a slight (2/5) risk convective outlook at 13Z, outflow from previous mesoscale convective systems had manifested as outflow boundaries over Iowa and Illinois, which were expected to be conducive to the formation of serial mesoscale convective systems that evening. [21]
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The tornado weakened as it continued through rural areas to the northeast of Marianna, where the roof of a church collapsed, a couple of barns were damaged or destroyed, several mobile homes had minor damage, and many trees were snapped or uprooted. The tornado dissipated near Bascom. Seven people were injured at the RV park. [30] EF1