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Heavy rainfall is not expected in the Wichita area, a meteorologist said. Wichita under tornado watch with threats of tennis ball-sized hail, strong wind gusts Skip to main content
The weather service said EF-1 tornadoes struck two other areas of suburban Chicago in Illinois. EF-0 twisters were reported in Illinois and Indiana suburbs of Chicago.
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 ...
Damage from a late-night tornado is seen in Sullivan, Ind., Saturday, April 1, 2023. ... Illinois, some of the 260 people attending a heavy metal concert at the Apollo Theatre pulled a 50-year-old ...
EF3 tornadoes in Arkansas, Tennessee, and Illinois prompted the issuance of tornado emergencies and multiple mass casualty incidents were declared for some of the hardest hit areas. One of these tornadoes was a high-end EF3 tornado that passed through the northern Little Rock metro, causing extensive damage and dozens of injuries.
Satellite image of the storm system responsible for the tornado outbreak that occurred on April 25–28, 2024. On April 20, 2024, the National Weather Service's Storm Prediction Center (SPC) first delineated a severe weather risk for April 25–26, highlighting a zone extending from the Central Great Plains northeastward to the Midwestern U.S.
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]
That weather could include golf ball-sized hail, winds up to 70 mph and a few tornadoes. The NWS also put an area that includes Wichita under a tornado watch until 9 p.m. Severe weather for ...