Shocking photos and videos from four suspected tornadoes in Illinois and Indiana Tuesday showed homes, buildings and businesses decimated, with trucks flipped over onto their side, steel fences and beams torn apart and power lines severed.
National Weather Service teams were expected to survey the damage Wednesday, according to officials, with teams in Kankakee County in Illinois and Newton and Jasper Counties in Indiana.
“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.”
NBC 5’s Lisa Chavarria was in Kankakee County Wednesday morning, showing scenes where a motel had been blown to the ground.
“I spoke to a man who was in his basement, he said he could hear his home being sucked into the tornado,” Chavarria said.
Another neighbor said the storm was “the most horrifying experience.”
“The skies turned green,” the neighbor said, who then saw softball-sized hail. “It sounded like the house was exploding.”
Giant trees were uprooted and snapped in half, photos and videos showed. In total, at least 10 people were injured, Kankakee officials said Wednesday, and several roads remain shut down.
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In the small town of Lake Village, Indiana, in Newton County, officials confirmed 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 others were hurt.
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.
Later Wednesday, the National Weather Service will be out surveying the storm damage to confirm where and if tornadoes touched down, and how strong they were.
“I suspect at least an EF-2 to EF-3 range,” NBC 5 Storm Team Meteorologist Kevin Jeanes said, of the intensity.
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