![]() The 'Currents' tab will give additional information on humidity percent, cloud cover, visibility, dew point, barometric pressure, and sunrise/sunset times. Page opens to the ‘Overview’ tab which gives current conditions, 3 hour hourly forecast, the 7 day daily forecast, and access to the radar page Updated Current Conditions/Forecast Page. Changes include a white background, colored icons, and larger text to make data easier to read. ![]() New look to the current conditions and forecast tile to make it more modern looking and easier for users to read weather data. Boundaries, roads, cities display on top of radar data to make it easier to view your location on the map. It sounded horrible," Mike Norman said.Update to the mapping background in the radar tile and page to give it a new modern look. "My phone went off, the alarm says tornado and as soon as it said that I said we need to get in the basement because the wind it was raining, the wind picked up so fast by the time we got to the basement step door, you could hear everything hitting. In their neighborhood, the Normans appeared to have absorbed the brunt of the damage their garage is demolished, their yard now devoid of nearly all 60 trees they had planted. The wind took down power lines, plunging the neighborhood into darkness. Some residents said they heard no sirens. We were trying to close the doors and try to get downstairs as fast as we could," said his daughter Sarah Coursey. Things were hitting the windows and everything. "The table was moving, the branches are flying. And trees are flying everywhere," he said.Įven where there weren't tornadoes, Wednesday's strong storms left dmaage in their wake. And all of a sudden, it started to get really windy and we ran from there to there. And all of a sudden we both looked at each other and said what was happening? And it sounded like a freight train. "Me and my daughter were over at the grill cooking. Homeowner Patrick Coursey and his daughter barely escaped. Virtually every tree was toppled or shredded. Right across the street, Kruse's neighbor's home was and yard were devastated. And so we went inside for a minute and then we went back outside and started taking a video because we said there's a tornado," said Clair Kruse. "We went outside because it was raining super hard and then all of a sudden, everything started blowing all the umbrellas, the tables. As residents stare down the cleanup, they are grateful that there have not yet been any reports of injuries. Just north of Campton Hills, a tornado tore through part of Plato Center with destructive force. North of Campton Hills, residents of Plato Center are cleaning up after a tornado touchdown. ComeEd crews have been deployed in McCook to look for which wires are live and which are not. Power lines were popping around the motel and there are reports of more downed power lines across the area. The entire place is ruined," said Rajan Patel, whose family owns the Skyline Motel. "I just got a phone call from the hotel saying, 'Hey Eddie get back here because the roof is blowing off,'" said resident Eddie Morales. "Power lines fell down and they were sparking everywhere. "Abrupt burst of wind, loud thunder, the whole room was shaking," said resident Ty Carr. The garage was blown apart, the roof above the first floor was torn away, and multiple power lines are down around the motel. The family-run Skyline Motel in McCook was heavily damaged by the storms, leaving multiple families searching for a new place to stay. ![]() The family-owned Skyline Motel in McCook will have to be rebuilt from the ground up after Wednesday afternoon's storms. The NWS will send surveyors out to those sites to assess the veracity of the reports and the strength of any tornadoes. Wednesday, according to the National Weather Service in Chicago, which they described as "touching the ground intermittently so far and is moving east."Ī total of eight tornadoes were reported, along with one report of a funnel cloud. A confirmed tornado was on the ground around 7 p.m. The NWS also said a tornado touched down near O'Hare. The National Weather Service confirmed multiple tornado touchdowns in Campton Hills, Countryside, Hodgkins and Huntley. While the storms were powerful, the speed of their movement and what appear to be short bursts of tornado touchdowns resulted in no reports of serious injuries and damage that was often concentrated in single neighborhoods or just one part of a town or village. CHICAGO (WLS) - Many are cleaning up after tornadoes and strong storms moved through the Chicago area Wednesday evening, sparking strings of warnings and producing multiple funnel clouds and confirmed touchdowns. ![]()
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