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Tornado touched down in Chicago suburb before crossing into
Rogers Park Monday, NWS confirms

CHICAGO — An EF-1 tornado touched down in Lincolnwood before
moving through Rogers Park Monday, the National Weather Service
confirmed Tuesday.

A damage survey by the NWS confirmed an EF-1 tornado with
estimated peak winds of 110 mph and a maximum width of 300
yards touched down in Lincolnwood and progressed east northeast
through Phillip Rogers Park.

Rogers Park resident Mary Hopkins said she had just got home
from volunteering with the census when the tornado hit.

“I was heading toward the basement and got to the center of the
house, and then this tree came down and the whole house shook;
knocked the plaster off the wall, the crown molding upstairs, I
was cowering in the doorway but it was over in a flash,” Hopkins
said.

Branches took down power lines in her backyard, and she said
she’s waiting on ComEd to come before the trees can safely be
removed. Storms left 500,000 people without power across the
area, and ComEd says it will take several days to get everyone
back online.

The tornado was part of a derecho which caused damage from Iowa
to northern Indiana, bringing winds of 70 mph and higher, while
downing branches and uprooting trees along the way.

At the end of its 3-mile path, the tornado moved through
Pottawattomie Park, roughly along west Fargo Avenue, before
crossing on to Lake Michigan and becoming a waterspout. There
were no confirmed injuries or fatalities.

This is only the 15th tornado to impact the Chicago city limits
since weather records began in 1855. The most recent was a very
brief landspout in 2016, and another in 2006 near the Loyola
campus.

There's your fucking reparations, niggers.

https://wgntv.com/news/chicago-news/national-weather-service- confirms-chicago-tornado-385k-remain-without-power/
 

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