Officials say that major storms that caused tornadoes in parts of Illinois and Indiana on Tuesday destroyed homes, knocked down trees and power lines, and flooded a 911 center south of Chicago with emergency calls.
“Don’t come here, please.” “Don’t try to help right now,” warned Newton County Sheriff Shannon Cothran in a video update in front of what looked like a demolished home in the small northwestern Indiana town of Lake Village.
A tornado seems to have destroyed several residences in the area, and Indiana State Police Corporal Eric Rot claimed that some individuals had been hurt. He couldn’t give an accurate number or tell them what was wrong with them.
The National Weather Service said that severe storms that were dropping rain and hail in some regions of the Midwest were likely to deliver very strong tornadoes, destructive winds, and extremely large hail from the southern Plains to the southern Great Lakes. Tornado watches were in effect for states from Oklahoma to Michigan.
Andrew Lyons, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service Storm Prediction Center, stated that a handful of tornadoes erupted in northeastern Illinois and northwestern Indiana. However, the precise number won’t be known until officials undertake damage surveys.
He said that this was a quite normal heavy storm system for early spring. He predicted that it is anticipated to keep moving east across areas of the mid-Atlantic and East Coast on Wednesday, bringing much worse weather.
In a video that was posted on social media, the tornado can be seen tearing over a field of farmland near an airport while cars lined the road.
In Illinois and Indiana, more than 2 million Americans were at a moderate danger of bad weather. Almost 22 million people were at a slightly lower risk in a zone that includes Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Fort Worth, Texas, and Chicago.
