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The weather service's Chicago office said preliminary findings indicated that an EF-1 tornado struck an area of Chicago that included the western portions of the Loop on Monday night.
CHICAGO — The National Weather Service confirmed at least eight tornados touched down across the Midwest in the last two days — with at least one EF-1 tornado touching down in downtown Chicago.
As the powerful storms approached Chicago, tornado warnings were issued for the areas in and around the city, encompassing an area that over 2.5 million people call home.
As that tornado was dissipating, the same storm produced a violent low-end EF4 tornado, the strongest tornado of the outbreak, which passed near Keota, severely damaging and destroying several homes, including one home that was completely swept away. As the afternoon progressed, numerous tornadoes, including over a dozen EF2 tornadoes, touched ...
A tornado caused minor damage to trees, power lines, and a business in downtown Lake Charles. [82] [83] [84] EF1 Chicago, Illinois: July 15, 2024 0 Severe weather sequence of July 13–16, 2024 – A supercell embedded in a powerful derecho dropped a weak tornado in downtown Chicago. [85] EF1 Buffalo, New York: August 5, 2024 0 [86]
Another supercell in southern Missouri produced a low-end EF3 tornado that passed near Morehouse and through Sikeston, killing one. May 26 would be the most active day of severe weather; several rounds of squall lines and tornadic supercells moved through the Mid-Mississippi and the Ohio Valleys , producing widespread wind damage, large hail ...
The line of storms that hit the area Monday night produced 11 tornadoes in the greater Chicago area, including the one that hit Channahon, according to the National Weather Service.
Later that evening, a separate system, the remnants of the previous day's derecho and fueled by the same Ring of Fire pattern, produced a small-scale tornado outbreak and damaging wind event across the Chicago metropolitan area, with two tornadoes confirmed in the city of Chicago itself, and wind gusts reaching 90 mph (140 km/h). An additional ...