STORM2K

Posted: **Thu Apr 09, 2015 7:02 pm**

Large tornado on the ground in Illinois.

Posted: **Thu Apr 09, 2015 7:18 pm**

EF-5bigj wrote:TWC is showing a large tornado on the ground on the TX/LA boarder.

A link ??

/// And a massive tornado near Rockford, IL

Posted: **Thu Apr 09, 2015 7:23 pm**

That's what I ment I had to correct it.

Posted: **Thu Apr 09, 2015 7:25 pm**

http://www.wics.com/news/features/live-news/

Posted: **Thu Apr 09, 2015 7:26 pm**

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHICAGO/ROMEOVILLE IL
716 PM CDT THU APR 9 2015

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHICAGO HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
NORTH CENTRAL DE KALB COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL ILLINOIS...
SOUTHERN BOONE COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL ILLINOIS...
SOUTHWESTERN MCHENRY COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN ILLINOIS...

* UNTIL 745 PM CDT

* AT 716 PM CDT...A CONFIRMED LARGE AND EXTREMELY DANGEROUS TORNADO
WAS LOCATED NEAR KIRKLAND...OR 9 MILES SOUTH OF BELVIDERE...MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

Posted: **Thu Apr 09, 2015 7:36 pm**

Yeah, today definitely looks worse than yesterday. At least 3 tornadoes currently confirmed on the ground, the one in Northern Illinois is kinda making the hair at the back of my neck stand up. Been on the ground for ages, too. Quite the long-tracker.

Posted: **Thu Apr 09, 2015 7:43 pm**

Current Warnings

13 TOR
20 SVR

Posted: **Thu Apr 09, 2015 7:47 pm**

Seems like a good signature on the one that just went through Walshville, headed towards Taylor Springs

Posted: **Thu Apr 09, 2015 7:50 pm**

Posted: **Thu Apr 09, 2015 8:01 pm**

Did y'all see the people in Rochelle, Illinois drive into the wedge tornado!??

Posted: **Thu Apr 09, 2015 8:02 pm**

I never have understood why people just keep driving even if it's a violent tornado in their way.

Posted: **Thu Apr 09, 2015 8:15 pm**

Getting reports of catastrophic damage in Kirkland, IL and surrounding areas from multiple chasers. A horizontal vortex is evident in several videos of the wedge tornado, supporting the idea that it was violent in nature.

Taking a look at the 0z sounding from Lincoln, 850mb winds and 500mb winds are nearly unidirectional, so it's a little bit of a mystery how a violent tornado developed. I have two hypotheses right now: either the sounding site is too far south and the environment across northern Illinois is much more favorable than illustrated, or the tornado was enhanced by a mesoscale boundary that cannot be picked up by the sounding.

Posted: **Thu Apr 09, 2015 8:25 pm**

I backed up a couple of frames just before the image posted above and the main signature looks like it went just west of Kirkland across 72.

Posted: **Thu Apr 09, 2015 8:33 pm**

Yeah, apparently a restaurant was flattened just north of Rochelle, Il. Same Tornado that also went through Kirkland apparently.

Posted: **Thu Apr 09, 2015 8:39 pm**

Video from Basehunters:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpiRNb12elk[/youtube]

Posted: **Thu Apr 09, 2015 8:56 pm**

TWC is showing video and the damage is really catastrophic.

Posted: **Thu Apr 09, 2015 9:25 pm**

One headed for Murphysboro/Carbondale, IL

Posted: **Thu Apr 09, 2015 9:35 pm**

1 dead, many missing in Fairdale, Illinois via multiple news agencies.

Posted: **Thu Apr 09, 2015 10:02 pm**

I've seen a couple of reports from storm chasers that in at least a couple of spots, complete destruction was reported with some homes wiped clean from their foundations.

Posted: **Fri Apr 10, 2015 9:05 pm**

It looks like there was some ground scouring in some damage pics.

STORM2K

Significant Severe Weather Event Possible 4/8-9/15

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