It was a similar sight at a home in Burlington, where the roof of a home was destroyed, with debris left everywhere. A tornado is a violent rotating column of air extending from a thunderstorm to the. the Midwest Reports of tornadoes have come in from Illinois to Arkansas. 'I saw a tornado leaving all of my building was gone, my cars all smashed to heck and my brand new truck with a trailer on top of it,' Evans said. These thunderstorms often produce hail, strong winds, and tornadoes. The map shows every tornado to touch down in the U. Ken Evans was fortunate that he and his wife and dog were able to get to safety in the basement before the storm ripped through their property, destroying three buildings, including the garage that houses his collection of vintage cars. CHICAGO (WLS) - A tornado touched down in southern DuPage County Sunday night, part of a line of severe storms that brought heavy rains and damaging winds across the Chicago area. It was a difficult night for many residents of those areas.

It hit the west suburb briefly around 4:45 p.m. The National Weather Service confirmed that it was the weakest level of tornadoes on the Enhanced Fujita Scale. There is scattered damage throughout a wide area spanning De Kalb County to Lee to parts of DuPage. An EF-0 tornado touched down in Oak Brook as severe storms swept through northern Illinois Saturday evening. Some of these same areas are still cleaning up from severe storms over. A tornado that slammed into southeastern Missouri early Wednesday caused at least five deaths and injuries to five people, and prompted a feverish search for survivors in the wreckage. I didn't expect a tornado,' resident Dennis Owens said. More than 50 million people are under the threat of severe storms Saturday from the Gulf Coast to the Great Lakes.

'I was standing in the backyard and all of a sudden, I saw some swirling, like swirling rain, and I thought, 'What is that?' It kept swirling. Several possible tornado touchdowns were reported in Illinois Monday, including parts of the Chicago area, as warnings stretched from DuPage County down to Champaign. The churning winds destroyed everything in its path as it touched down. People living in the area could see the tornado coming from miles away.

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