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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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English: A farmstead completely leveled by the April 9, 2015 Rochelle, Illinois tornado. This farmstead was impacted by winds estimated at 200 mph (320 km/h), the upper bounds of an EF4 tornado. This farmstead was impacted by winds estimated at 200 mph (320 km/h), the upper bounds of an EF4 tornado.
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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