CHICAGO – The National Weather Service confirmed Friday that two more tornadoes touched down in the Chicago area during Monday night’s derecho.
The severe weather system swept through northern Illinois and Indiana, bringing the total count of tornadoes to 24. This sets a new record for tornadoes on a single day or from a single event in the Chicago NWS forecast area.
So far, the NWS has confirmed the following tornadoes:
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EF-0: Oak Forest
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EF-0: Broadview
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EF-0: Glen Ellyn to Lombard
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EF-0: Villa Park
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EF-1: Grant Park
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EF-1: Sugar Grove to Aurora EF-1
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EF-0: Crestwood to Blue Island
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EF-1 Flossmoor to Thornton
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EF-0: West Town (Chicago)
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EF-0: Shelby to Wheatfield Township
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EF-0: Peotone (track TBD)
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EF-0: Manteno (track TBD)
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EF-0: Southern Winnebago County EF-0 (exact track still TBD)
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EF-0: Byron
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EF-0: Davis Junction
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EF-0: Sugar Grove to North Aurora
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EF-1: Yorkville to Naperville
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EF-2: Channahon-Manhattan-Frankfort-Matteson
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EF-0: Crest Hill to Lockport
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EF-1 Justice
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EF-1: Chicago; Near West Side to west side of The Loop
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EF-1: Chicago; Chicago Lawn to West Englewood
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EF-1: Cedar Lake to Crown Point
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EF-1: Minooka-Shorewood-Joliet
A 44-year-old woman from Cedar Lake, Ind., died following the storms, according to the Lake County Coroner’s Office.
The storms also led to dozens of flight cancelations at O’Hare International Airport and Midway International Airport, thousands of power outages and several reports of storm damage.
We’ll bring more updates to this story as they become available.
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