Damage reported after tornado rips through Long Creek, Illinois, amid severe storms

Tornado damages parts of Illinois pursuing terrible storms

TORNADO HAVOC: Video captures the devastating harm successful Long Creek, Illinois, aft 1 of perchance 3 tornadoes ripped done the authorities Dec. 28. The NWS issued a Tornado Warning precocious day and soon aft urged radical to instrumentality screen arsenic a reported twister was moving eastbound astatine 45 mph. An EF-1 Tornado was besides confirmed successful Groveland, with upwind speeds up to 98 mph.

LONG CREEK, IL.- As beardown storms moved crossed the Midwest connected Sunday, Dec. 28, Illinois was deed by aggravated thunderstorms, rainfall and damaging winds, triggering astatine slightest 3 tornadoes passim the state.

The storms prompted a Level 1 of 5 terrible tempest menace passim portions of the region.

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The National Weather Service issued a Tornado Warning connected Sunday day and soon aft urged radical to instrumentality cover, arsenic a tornado had been reported conscionable eastbound of Long Creek astatine 3:28 p.m. CST.

Video captured shows conscionable however terrible the tempest was, arsenic respective homes sustained harm and debris tin beryllium seen scattered passim the yards. You tin adjacent spot a extortion that was ripped disconnected connected the ground.

Multiple different tornadoes person besides been reported passim Illinois, with astatine slightest 3 confirmed. One was reported 2 miles northwest of Mount Zion, destroying 8 homes. Another 1 astir 2 miles north-northwest of Mount Zion besides caused important damage.

Reports of a tornado astir 3 miles eastbound of Elwin caused much structural harm arsenic well, and each 3 were reported conscionable aft 3 p.m. CST.

On the aforesaid day, a abstracted radar confirmed that an EF-1 tornado touched down on Allentown Road, astir 3 miles south-southwest of Groveland.

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It struck astatine 9:27 a.m. CST, traveling 1.73 miles on Allentown Road with a width of 200 yards and highest winds of 98 mph. Its way ended astatine 9:32 a.m. CST, astir 2 miles south-southeast of Groveland. 

It destroyed 2 outbuildings, snapped disconnected galore histrion branches on the roadworthy and toppled 8 power poles on Springfield Road, NWS reports.

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While 3 tornadoes are presently confirmed, much accusation volition beryllium released connected the further reported touchdowns, erstwhile much surveys are completed.