Twister kills one in ( Illinois ) ; Storm moves toward the south and eastA violent storm system rolled a deadly tornado and severe damage
produced in a small town northwest of Chicago to the south and east
Friday threaten, strong winds and large hail from the Gulf Coast to the
Mid-Atlantic states.The
Storm Prediction Center is forecasting the risk of severe thunderstorms
Friday afternoon and evening from South Texas to the east along the
Gulf coast and in the north east to the Mid-Atlantic states. He said the biggest threat was from damaging winds and large hail."During the Tornado risk is low, the storms could wind gusts up to 55
mph and small hail produce," said meteorologist AccuWeather Becky
Elliott.
The total strength of storms will be significantly less than the storms in the central government on Wednesday and Thursday compared according to AccuWeather.The threat for severe weather is highest in cities like Richmond, Charlotte, Atlanta, Birmingham, New Orleans and Houston.The National Weather Service said at least two Twister, maybe more, landed during the storm on Thursday night. Survey teams from the weather service are out today look at the damage to determine the intensity of hurricanes.Hardest hit the city was unincorporated Fairdale 80 miles northwest of Chicago, where a 67-year-old woman as Geraldine M. Schultz identified, killed and eight people were injured, according to authorities.Chad Connell, head of the Kirkland community fire district, told reporters at a press conference on Friday morning that rescuers have two preliminary searches of the area and made some residents are still missing. A large tornado landed Thursday in northern Illinois, killing one person, such as storms pummeled the Midwest. (April 10) APHe said 17 structures in the city about 200 inhabitants were destroyed - "Complete their foundations."Schultz's body was found in her home, said DeKalb County Coroner Dennis Miller. "She was removed from the home by family members and I took it from there."Overall, in Illinois, Iowa and Missouri, there were 14 reports of tornadoes on Thursday, according to preliminary reports from the Weather Service Storm Prediction Center. Deadly tornadoes caused widespread damage across the Midwest on April 9, Chris Neisendorf took this Twister near Genoa, Illinois. VPCRussell Henson, 52, and his son, Nathan, 23, were awakened by the roar of an oncoming Twister and managed to flee with the car before they hit their farm outside Fairdale, reported the Chicago Tribune.She told the newspaper that the tornado destroyed two barns, two trucks and damaged caused severe damage to their 107 years old house. "My whole life is in this house," he said, adding: ". We are alive I can not say much more than that."The tornado also swept over the town of Hillcrest, about 80 miles west of Chicago and north of Rochelle.In Rochelle, a town of 9,500 people about 25 miles south of Rockford, Raymond Kramer, 81, told WLS-TVthat he crossed to a Rochelle restaurant Grubsteakers only a few minutes before the storm had moved."I stood at the door to get pictures of the tornado on me, and finally the owner of the restaurant said:" Everyone in the basement now! "," Kramer said the TV Staton. "And as soon as we get there, when it hit the building and put a whole metal wall on top of the doors where we in the storm cellar."Kramer said he and 11 others were trapped in the basement for about 90 minutes.A second tornado cut a path of Winnebago County Boone County, according to the weather serviceThe weather forced the cancellation of more than 800 flights at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago and delayed hundreds more.In another weather-related death, a woman died in the Indianapolis area on Wednesday night as they swept up by a flash flood.