The National Weather Service in Chicago has given the Aroma Park/Lake Village #tornado a preliminary EF-3 rating. "A EF-3 tornado tracked 36.6 miles from W of Aroma Park, IL to near DeMotte, IN. This is the tornado that caused 2 fatalities near Lake Village."
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Check out this new footage of the Kankakee, IL tornado from yesterday!
Come for the blitzing funnel moving at lightning speeds, stay for the insane hailstorm raining into the Kankakee River!
🎥: Matt and Patricia Olzewski
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More terrifying footage coming out of the midwest.
A couple of locals near Wheatfield, Indiana, captured this massive stovepipe twister lurking in the shadows of the storm. The lightning gives it an especially ethereal, spine-chilling appearance.
1st 🎥: u/TomboyAva
2nd 🎥: @violet_sunsetss
Another haunting look at the nocturnal twister that triggered the Tornado Emergency alert earlier tonight...
🎥: @reag.kelly on TikTok
a large, heavy grain dryer the size of a large shed leans on its side
While the Tornado Emergency missed the heart of town, it certainly left its mark on the outskirts...
This is a whole 3-ton grain dryer knocked over.
📸: @LukeZimWx on X
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The Tornado Emergency has since expired! The small town of Knox, IN made it through mostly unscathed.
🚨 Tornado Emergency issued for Knox, Indiana! If you or anyone you know lives in the area, PLEASE alert them to take shelter.
Tornado Emergencies are rare occurrences, and are meant to stress how serious the situation is. Do not take it lightly!
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a menacingly dark wedge funnel kisses the earth as a lightning flash illuminates its massive structure over a flat, rural plain
A brief glimpse at the nocturnal wedge tornado striking near Wheatfield, IN earlier this evening.
Screenshot shared by @Pandrew_Wx on X.
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Here's a shot of the Kankakee, IL tornado as it approached Lake Village, IN. You can clearly make out the green skies often referenced when describing a tornadic atmosphere.
Video: @LukeHattonWX on X
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Video of the aforementioned twister. This was moments after its genesis.
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This has sadly morphed into a very large, rain-wrapped wedge heading through Aroma Park, IL. If you live in the area or know folks who do, please take shelter or call for them to do so!
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A large cone tornado sits in the background of a rural stretch of storage buildings. Chyrons showcasing radar information sit at the bottom of the frame
A snapshot of the tornado tearing through the NE side of Kankakee, IL. This image comes from Cory Gerkin's live stream of the ongoing severe weather outbreak.
10 minutes later and they have a massive tornado ripping through the NE side of town... Ugh
Found it!
Someone in Kankakee County found a 5-inch stone that breaks the Illinois state record of 4.75 inches!
a hail shard sitting flat on gravel ground, a tape measurer extended to 4 inches sitting next to it to display the shard's massive size
Chris Kwinta, better known as The Lightning Hunter on YouTube, came into contact with whopping 4-inch hail shards near Odell, IL!
When they say "tennis ball-sized hail," this is what they mean...
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a screenshot of a weather radar showing a classical "hook" setup of a supercell, covered by a red tornado warning polygon, just north of the town Pontiac and heading towards Odell, Dwight, and Reddick, Illinois
🚨 First tornado warning of the day, hitting north of Pontiac, Illinois and greater Livingston County.
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Storms will begin firing in the next hour or so. Stay tuned here for major breaking news, local updates, or any relevant footage depicting the day's severe weather!
NEW: A Level 4 out of 5 severe weather risk has been introduced in the red zone across portions of north central Illinois and adjacent western Indiana.
Several tornadoes, including a couple strong and/or long -track, are expected.
An UPGRADED tornado risk has occurred in northern Illinois and northwest Indiana. If you live between Galesburg, Peoria, Kankakee, Bloomington, Champaign, Rochester or Renssalaer, Indiana, please review your severe weather plan ASAP!
I have been unable to find any sort of memorial or donation resource for the final deceased victim, 12-year-old Silas Anderson from Edwardsburg, MI.
If anyone can share that link here, I'll add it to the thread, along with any other crowdfunding for the countless other victims!
TIA, everyone. 💙
Todd and Becky McClellan also lost their lives this last weekend, in the EF3 tornado that impacted the west side of Beggs, Oklahoma. The community mourns their loss, while aiding their son, Ace, who is still in the hospital healing from critical injuries sustained in the same storm.
Pennie Jo Guthrie, 65, was the third victim of the Union City EF3+. She leaves behind a surviving step-mother, five children, and countless grandchildren. Donations in her memory can be sent via the funeral home's donation portal.
Bill Akers, 63, lost his life in the same Union City twister, and all proceeds honoring his life have been requested to go to the local tornado relief and recovery fund, sponsored by the Branch County United Way.
Keri Johnson lost her life in the Union City, Michigan EF3+ that tore through the small village. She leaves behind her husband, Scott Johnson, who also lost his entire home and all of his belongings.
Jodie and Lexi Owens were the mother and daughter who lost their lives near Fairview, OK, when an EF2 tornado tossed their vehicle off of US Route 60. They leave behind a loving husband/father and 7 children/siblings.
To the good folk of BlueSky: Before the next wave of severe weather hits tomorrow, I want to take a moment and share a few vetted fundraisers and charities accepting donations for the families of the March 5th-7th tornado outbreak victims in Michigan and Oklahoma.
Thread!
Another vantage point of the Union City, Michigan tornado, filmed by a local technician, Mitchell Hart.
We do not recommend ever getting this close to a twister...
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a car with a busted back windshield sits on a slabbed foundation with debris and broken trees clustered around it
a slabbed foundation with debris littered about sits on the shores of a small woodland lake. The skeleton of a fireplace is the only thing still in tact on the foundation
a close up of a slabbed foundation with debris littered about. You can see how the carpet and/or floor was ripped straight from the nails holding it down
a mess of debris sit around a completely destroyed house. a couple of mangled car frames sit on either side of the image
Survey photos of the damage in Union City, Michigan. These images were taken around 1239 Prairie Rose Ln, where the preliminarily rated EF3 tornado struck the lake town.
The key quote from meteorologists: "Sill plates were screwed into concrete and ripped out (not broken)."
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I absolutely see the parallels between them, yeah! Skip Talbot's footage is some of my favorite tornado media of recent times.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hBC...
