Tornadoes touch down in Illinois as powerful storms pound the Midwest

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Multiple tornadoes were reported across Illinois on the evening of Feb. 27.

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00:00 If you can identify here.

00:02 This rotation.

00:03 This was a much tighter rotation a

00:05 couple miles off towards the southwest,

00:07 and that's where it did produce a tornado

00:09 in one of the Chicago suburbs.

00:11 So we did have a report of a tornado

00:13 near Chicago from the storm pattern,

00:15 but the Chicago downtown getting

00:17 the tail end of it as we speak with

00:20 those frequent lightning flashes.

00:21 You can see two across northern Illinois.

00:23 We've had reports of tornadoes overnight,

00:25 and in fact there's been a couple of

00:28 them stretching across northern Illinois.

00:30 With this complex of thunderstorms,

00:32 it is the main complex that we're

00:34 watching at this point in time.

00:36 We have a tornado watch box that's in

00:38 place until 10 o'clock Central Time

00:40 for places like Chicago, though.

00:41 After we see this thunderstorm pass through,

00:43 our tornado risk shouldn't significantly

00:45 go down in the Windy City.

00:47 However,

00:47 there's still more severe weather

00:49 as we go through tonight from Central

00:51 Michigan on South into the Ohio River Valley.

00:53 We do have the risk for severe

00:55 severe weather as we go through

00:57 tonight with those severe thunderstorms

00:59 and that high risk is focused in

01:01 towards Louisville and Cincinnati

01:02 near the Ohio River.

01:03 So we have a great risk here for

01:05 the potential of damaging winds,

01:07 but we can't rule out hail and

01:09 tornadoes as threats with these

01:11 thunderstorms that are going to

01:12 illuminate in time and you can see

01:14 in the next couple of hours next two

01:16 hours or so these thunderstorms

01:18 will start getting going.

01:19 And become more of a line as we

01:21 follow more of that moisture in

01:23 lower Michigan lifting north and

01:24 dissolving pretty quickly so that

01:26 line continues as we head into

01:27 tomorrow morning and so we are

01:29 still talking about that severe

01:31 weather risk right through the night.

01:32 A lot of these places you'll hear

01:34 rumbles of thunder through the night,

01:36 so you want the Accuweather app to

01:38 stay weather aware and keep those

01:40 alerts coming to your phone to help

01:42 wake you up in the case of either

01:44 a tornado warning or eventually a

01:45 severe thunderstorm warning too.

01:47 If you need to stay away from some

01:49 of the windows in your house.

01:51 Oh my god!

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