Saturday, April 11, 2015

Tornado in Midwest


Candy Trudell looks through the wreckage of her home in Rochelle on April 10.





Friday on April 10th a tornado ripped through the Midwest killing two people. The NWS rated the tornado as an EF-4 with winds between 166-200mph. Nearly 20 homes were flattened. 20 people were hospitalized.
A tornado is seen from a home in Kirkland, Illinois, on April 9.As many as 14 tornadoes were reported in the rural Midwest on Thursday. A large and dangerous twister tore across fields in Iowa. And a twister touched down 70 miles outside St. Louis.
It could have been worse as severe tornado damage dotted a path not far from the dense populations of Chicago and Rockford, the state's third-largest city. The tornado cut a 22-mile path through Ogle County, according to disaster management coordinator Tom Richter.


http://www.cnn.com/2015/04/10/us/severe-weather/

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