The National Weather Service will be out surveying sites in Illinois and Indiana where at least four suspected tornadoes touched down spawned by a “supercell tornado,” leaving a trail of destruction in its path as homes and buildings were destroyed and power lines were severed.
In Lake Village, Indiana, at least two people died in the storms, with homes “annihilated,” the sheriff’s office said. Photos and video from the scene stretching from Pontiac, Illinois to northwest Indiana showed structures crumbled and trees and power lines tangled up in debris.
In Chicago, giant balls of hail pounded homes and streets, with ground stops in effect at both Midway and O’Hare International Airports.
Officials with the NWS believe the supercell tracked from Pontiac through Kankakee, and into Wheatfield and Knox in northwest Indiana.
Suspected tornado touchdowns, the NWS said, were in Pontiac and parts south of Kankakee in Illinois, and Lake Village and Wheatfield in Indiana.
“I suspect at least an EF-2 to EF-3 range,” NBC 5 Storm Team Meteorologist Kevin Jeanes said, of the intensity.
‘It sounded like bowling balls’
Homes and buildings in Kankakee County were reduced to piles of rubble late Tuesday night due to the severe weather weather, with several schools closed Wednesday and thousands of power outages.
“It sounded like bowling balls,” one resident in Kankakee County described. “We thought it was hail. It was literally a freight train. We stepped outside and saw our neighbor’s garage, gone. Our neighbors house, gone. Both our cars, our living room, our shed — gone.”
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Early Wednesday morning, NBC 5’s Lisa Chavarria described the storm damage in the area as lightning and thunderstorms continued, with downed power lines, trees tangled up in debris and parts of buildings strewn about, including an Aldi grocery store.
In a statement, Kankakee Mayor Chris Curtis said the tornado “traveled through the southwest portion of the City of Kankakee causing damage to industrial sites and commercial buildings along the Route 45/52 corridor.”
Curtis said the severe weather “severed” power lines and continued to damage several homes in incorporated Kankakee County. Several roads were shut down as storm cleanup continued, and a Red Cross Shelter was activated for those impacted.
Curtis and other officials will provide an update on the damage at 8 a.m. Wednesday. The update will play in the video above once in begins.
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In the small town of Lake Village, Indiana, in Newton County, officials said a tornado touched down, with search and rescue crews still on scene early Wednesday. NBC 5 Storm Team Meteorologist Kevin Jeanes described the storm that hit Lake Village as a “massive supercell.”
In a press conference overnight, the Lake Village sheriff’s office said the storms left “several areas of devastation.”
“Complete annihilation of homes right now,” the sheriff’s office said during the update, warning volunteers to stay home. “It’s too dangerous. It’s too dark.”
The sheriff’s office later said at least two people were killed and several were hurt in the storms.
Early Wednesday morning, video and photo from NBC 5 photographers captured a damage at a gas station, with building parts broken and slammed to the ground.
Closer to Chicago, the storm lead to giant, “destructive” hail and ground stops at Chicago airports. Thunderstorms and lightning were expected to continue across the Chicago area through the early morning hours before a mixture of rain and snow showers by afternoon, the NBC 5 Storm Team said.
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