US EditionDangerous storms tear through central US with tornadoes and huge hail
Record hail over 5 inches reported near Kankakee, Illinois, with 60,000 power outages across the Central US, officials said.
- Dangerous storms across the central US overnight Tuesday into Wednesday produced tornadoes, huge hail, and flash flooding, according to CNN meteorologists.
- A new storm system strengthened over the region, raising the highest severe risk levels in months and creating a more widespread potential for storms.
- A tornadic supercell pushed east for over two hours from central Illinois, prompting a Tornado Emergency for Knox, Indiana, while storms caused damage and left over 60,000 customers without power near Kankakee, Illinois.
- Local leaders activated emergency operations and filed an emergency declaration, with seven minor injuries reported and no deaths in Kankakee County, the sheriff’s office said.
- Despite weakening by morning, a Level 4 risk remains for more than 2 million people in northern Illinois and northwest Indiana, with storms expected to return in the afternoon.
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Dangerous storms tear through central US with tornadoes and huge hail
CNN By CNN meteorologists Mary Gilbert, Chris Dolce and Briana Waxman (CNN) — Dangerous storms with tornadoes and huge hail are tracking across the central US overnight Tuesday into Wednesday. This threat of notably strong tornadoes has prompted the highest severe thunderstorm risk in months to be issued in parts of the Midwest. It’s all part of a more widespread potential outbreak of powerful storms across the Central US on Tuesday as a new sto…
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Dangerous storms with tornadoes and hail advance through the center of the U.S. night and morning from Tuesday to Wednesday.
Severe weather moving across the central United States - 41NBC News
(CNN)- A massive tornado ripped through the Kankakee, Illinois area Tuesday evening, part of a widespread outbreak of severe weather tracking across the central United States overnight into Wednesday. Video captured as the storm moved through the region shows the large tornado crossing a roadway near the community. “There it is right there… this is right here [unintelligible] road area,” a witness said while filming the storm. Residents nearby r…
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