The city of Chicago, Illinois — After conducting a storm damage survey on Thursday night, the National Weather Service confirmed that two short tornadoes had touched down in southern Iroquois County on Wednesday.
The first tornado was reported to have happened on April 2 at approximately five o’clock Central Daylight Time (CDT) in the vicinity of Loda, Illinois, and it lasted for two minutes. EF-1 was the rating given to it, and its peak winds were believed to be 100 miles per hour. It traveled 2.3 miles and had a maximum width of 400 yards. At 5:09 p.m., the second tornado made landfall close to Cissna Park, and it maintained its intensity for one minute. It had a route that was 2.2 miles long, a width of 300 yards, and an estimated peak wind speed of 65 miles per hour. It was categorized as an EF-0.
On either side of the incident, there were no reports of injuries or fatalities. The extent of the damage, which was restricted to brief tornado tracks across open and rural regions, was evaluated with the assistance of emergency management officials from Iroquois and Ford Counties.
The residents of Illinois are being urged to maintain a heightened awareness of the weather as spring storm systems continue to move through the state. Among the most important instruments for emergency preparedness are alert subscriptions, emergency packs, and NOAA weather radios. This occurrence is one of the first reported tornadoes of the season in east-central Illinois, and it serves as a reminder to communities that the state is prone to experiencing severe weather during the month of April.
