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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 ...
On the evening of June 20, 2021, an intense tornado affected the Chicago suburbs of Naperville, Woodridge, Darien, Burr Ridge, and Willow Springs in DuPage and Cook Counties in Illinois. It was the strongest tornado spawned by a surface low over Wisconsin, which spawned a total of four tornadoes across Illinois and Indiana. The tornado ...
A radar-confirmed tornado swept through suburban Chicago, damaging homes, toppling trees, knocking out power and causing some injuries, officials said. At least four injuries were reported 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]
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2012 Leap Day tornado outbreak; 2013 Washington, Illinois, tornado; Tornado outbreak of May 18–21, 2013; Tornado outbreak of November 17, 2013; 2015 Rochelle–Fairdale tornado; 2021 Naperville–Woodridge tornado; Tornado outbreak of December 10–11, 2021; 2023 Robinson–Sullivan tornado; Tornado outbreak of January 12, 2023
Amid a tornado warning on Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2024, powerful winds knocked down trees and branches on Ramona Avenue in Grover Beach. Well, that was an interesting day at work!
Woodridge has been named a "Tree City" by the Arbor Day Foundation for the past 16 years, [19] and a study undertaken in 1996 indicated that village has over 8,000 publicly owned trees. [20] On June 20, 2021, just after 11pm local time, Woodridge was struck by an EF-3 tornado. The storm damaged 225 homes in Woodridge and adjoining suburbs.