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Throughout the evening hours of April 9, 2015, an extremely violent and long-lived multiple-vortex tornado tore through the communities near Rochelle and in Fairdale, Illinois. Part of a larger severe weather event that impacted the Central United States, the tornado first touched down in Lee County at 6:39 p.m. CDT (23:39 UTC).
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By far the most significant tornado of the outbreak was a very high-end EF4 wedge tornado that struck the towns of Rochelle and Fairdale, Illinois, causing catastrophic damage. It was also the strongest tornado recorded in 2015, as well as the strongest to occur in Illinois since the F5 tornado that struck Plainfield in 1990.
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The Affing tornado had a path length of at least 14.3 km, and it damaged or destroyed 220 buildings, resulting in several injuries. [99] [100] [101] Another F3 tornado cut a 17 km long path through the Black Forest near Bonndorf, Baden-Württemberg and completely flattened a large swath of trees. All trees in the direct path of this large and ...
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