Dozens of Tornadoes Kill 6, injure at least 37 in Midwest

Mobile phone video captures a tornado in a central district of Illinois.By M. Alex Johnson and Jeff Black, NBC NewsA powerful storm system swept the Midwest on Sunday, dozens of tornadoes that killed at least six people, injured many others and left damage in parts of Illinois devastating of spawning.Brookport, Illinois at Massac County near the Kentucky line, was particularly hard hit. They were confirmed at least two people have been killed and police with dogs were going door to door to search for trapped residents. Roads into the city closed by debris and downed power lines, Brookport authorities imposed an 18-to-touch curfew 6.At least four people were killed in Illinois, the State Emergency Management Agency told NBC News. A 80-year-old man and his 78-year-old sister died about new Minden, according to Washington County coroner Mark Styninger, and unidentified victims were confirmed dead in the city of Washington and Unionville."Suddenly, the wind began to lift and [my wife] said: ' we have to go to the basement now!'" Steve Bucher in Washington said that the NBC station week of Peoria."In less than a minute, it all started inside the House, cracking, sputtering, collapsing," he said. "The next thing we know, is light inside the garage."Do after bringing rain and tornadoes to Illinois, this time set what next? Reports of Mike Seidel of The Weather Channel.In the early afternoon, 37 people were being treated at St. Francis Hospital in Peoria, seven of them as trauma patients. Numerous injuries were also reported in Massac County, with communications difficult and many impassable roads, it was still unclear how many people could be hurt.In the semana-TV, presenters had to go outside the air abruptly as they were counts that they themselves were in the path of the twister. According to the national weather service, was damaged the roof of the station.Steve Smedley / APA storm system a spin multiple tornadoes, killing several people and flattening an entire neighborhood.In the Tazewell County in central Illinois, emergency teams were responding to a tornado flattens homes in several neighborhoods. Cities with damage reported include Washington, Perkin and East Peoria, spokesman for the County Sara Sparkman told NBC News. Photos of Washington showed an expansive trail of wooden remains of wrecked homes as the tornado laid waste to a neighborhood.East Peoria Mayor Dave Mingus said that about 100 houses were damaged in his city of about 23,000 residents, with 25 to 50 destroyed and uninhabitable.The Red Cross was working with the County to open shelters in the area for families whose homes were damaged.Altogether, The Weather Channel recorded 40 reports of tornadoes: 16 in Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky 14 in eight each in Missouri and Ohio. There were more than 250 reports of damage from wind and strong winds through eight States.At least 83,000 customers were without power Sunday afternoon in most of the people in the area of Peoria, Illinois, said Jonathon Monken, director of the Illinois Emergency Management Agency.Rescue teams were deployed in multiple areas throughout the State, focusing on the affected areas of Washington and Gifford, Monken said.Damage extended throughout the region, with damage reported as far East as Kentucky.Corey Mayes of Corydon in Henderson County, KY., said that he, his wife and their 4-year-old dashed down as a tornado abruptly.A violent storm system spawned tornadoes in the Illinois Center. Kevin Tibbles, NBC reports."I yelled to everyone down to the basement, and checked in my family and he came back running," Mayes said NBC WFIE near Fort Wayne, Indiana station"At that time, had already come across the street and I was trying to touch down," he said. "Simply again and blew up above."The Governor of Illinois, Pat Quinn warned residents that the climate and storms across the State were "very serious".In Chicago, the NFL Baltimore Ravens-Chicago Bears game was delayed due to the climate, and the area of seats at Soldier Field was evacuated. The game was resumed in envelope 14:20 (3:20 p.m. ET) after a delay of nearly two hours.The highest point of the threat of tornadoes was eastern Illinois in Southern Michigan, Western Kentucky, Indiana and Western Ohio, but dangerous winds were also a cause for concern, as the storms move through the Appalachians, as well as parts of the northeast of the country in the early hours of Monday, said the national weather service.They reported significant damage in Lebanon, Indiana, where Elizabeth MacDougal was in a Starbucks coffee when a possible tornado appeared."I looked out the front window of the Starbucks and in fact was on the phone with my mother saying: ' Hey, we are entering a not so good time '", said McDougal station NBC WTHR of Indianapolis."And then, suddenly, I see a white cloud, and I'm like, 'Oh, moving funny,'" said. "And then they tracked down eyes, and it is then when the rubble started to lift. And that's when he said: ' MOM, I have to go!' "The Starbucks Windows were shattered, and the vehicles in the parking lot were revoked, WTHR reported.Wind and hail can cause the fallen trees and scattered power outages in a wide area from Chicago to Buffalo.The weather channel provides that the storm might decrease as it moved east to Pennsylvania, Maryland and New Jersey, but the winds could reach up to New York on Monday morning.Michelle Acevedo, Christopher Essner, Azhar Fateh, Elisha Fieldstadt, Alastair Jamieson, Christopher E. Nelson and Julmary Zambrano of NBC News contributed to this report.This story was originally posted on Sunday, November 17, 2013 6:28 PM EST

Scores of tornadoes kill 4, injure at least 37 in Midwest

aCellphone video captures a twister touching down in a central Illinois neighborhood. By M. Alex Johnson and Jeff Black, NBC NewsA powerful storm system rampaged through the Midwest on Sunday, spawning dozens of tornadoes that killed at least six people, injured many others and left devastating damage in parts of Illinois.Brookport, Ill., in Massac County near the Kentucky line, was particularly hard hit. At least two people were confirmed to have died, and police with dogs were going door to door to search for trapped residents. With roads entering the city closed by debris and downed power lines, Brookport authorities imposed a 6 p.m.-to-6 a.m. curfew.At least four other people were killed in Illinois, the state Emergency Management Agency told NBC News. An 80-year-old man and his 78-year-old sister were killed near New Minden, according to Washington County Coroner Mark Styninger, and unidentified victims were confirmed dead in Washington city and in Unionville."All of a sudden, the wind started picking up, and [my wife] said, 'We've got to get in the basement right now!'" Steve Bucher of Washington told NBC station WEEK of Peoria."Within less than a minute, everything started collapsing inside the house, cracking, sputtering," he said. "Next thing we know, it's light inside the garage."After bringing rain and tornadoes to Illinois, what will this weather system do next? Mike Seidel of The Weather Channel reports.By early evening, 37 people were being treated at St. Francis Hospital in Peoria, seven of them as trauma patients. Numerous injuries were also reported in Massac County, and with communications difficult and many roads impassable, it remained unclear how many other people might be hurt.At WEEK-TV, newscasters had to go off the air abruptly as they realized they themselves were in the path of the twister. According to the National Weather Service, the station's roof was damaged. Steve Smedley / APA storm system spun off multiple tornadoes killing several people and flattening an entire neighborhood.In Tazewell County in central Illinois, emergency crews were responding to a tornado that flattened homes in several neighborhoods. The cities with reported damage include Washington, Perkin and East Peoria, county spokeswoman Sara Sparkman told NBC News. Pictures from Washington showed an expansive trail of wood debris from homes torn apart as the twister laid waste to one neighborhood.East Peoria Mayor Dave Mingus said about 100 homes were damaged in his city of more than 23,000 residents, with 25 to 50 destroyed and uninhabitable.The Red Cross was working with the county to open up shelters in the area for families whose homes were damaged.Altogether, The Weather Channel recorded 40 reports of tornadoes: 16 in Indiana, 14 in Illinois, eight in Kentucky and one each in Missouri and Ohio. There were more than 250 reports of wind damage or high winds across eight states. At least 83,000 customers were without electric power Sunday evening in Illinois, most of those in the Peoria area, said Jonathon Monken, director of the Illinois Emergency management Agency.Rescue teams were deploying to multiple areas across the state, focusing on the hard-hit Washington and Gifford areas, Monken said.Damage extended across the region, with damage reported as far east as Kentucky.Corey Mayes of Corydon in Henderson County, Ky., said he, his wife and their 4-year-old dashed downstairs as a tornado rushed through.A violent storm system spawned tornadoes in central Illinois. NBC's Kevin Tibbles reports. "I yelled at everybody to get down to the basement, and I checked on my family and ran back up," Mayes told NBC station WFIE of nearby Fort Wayne, Ind."About that time, it had already come across the street and was trying to touch back down," he said. "It just sucked back up and blew on over."Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn warned residents that the weather and storms across the state were "very serious."In Chicago, the Baltimore Ravens-Chicago Bears NFL game was delayed because of the weather, and the seating area at Soldier Field was evacuated. The game resumed at about 2:20 p.m. (3:20 p.m. ET) after a nearly two-hour delay.The highest threat area for tornadoes was eastern Illinois into Indiana, southern Michigan, western Kentucky and western Ohio, but dangerous winds were also a concern as the storms move across the Appalachians as well as parts of the Northeast into early Monday, the National Weather Service said.Significant damage was reported in Lebanon, Ind., where Elizabeth MacDougal was in a Starbucks when a possible tornado appeared. "I was looking out the front window of the Starbucks and I was actually on the phone with my mom saying, 'Hey, we're entering some not-so-nice weather here,'" McDougal told NBC station WTHR of Indianapolis."And then all of a sudden, I see this white cloud, and I'm like, 'Oh, that's moving funny,'" she said. "And then my eyes tracked downward, and that's when the debris started to kick up. And that's when I said, 'Mom, I gotta go!'"The windows of the Starbucks were shattered, and vehicles in the parking lot were overturned, WTHR reported.Wind and hail could cause downed trees and scattered power failures across a broad area from Chicago to Buffalo.The Weather Channel predicted that the storm would diminish as it moved east through Pennsylvania, Maryland and New Jersey, but high winds could reach as far as New York on Monday morning.Michelle Acevedo, Christopher Essner, Azhar Fateh, Elisha Fieldstadt, Alastair Jamieson, Christopher E. Nelson and Julmary Zambrano of NBC News contributed to this report.This story was originally published on Sun Nov 17, 2013 6:28 PM EST

Scores of tornadoes kill 5, injure at least 37 in Midwest

aCellphone video captures a twister touching down in a central Illinois neighborhood. By M. Alex Johnson and Jeff Black, NBC NewsA powerful storm system rampaged through the Midwest on Sunday, spawning dozens of tornadoes that killed at least six people, injured many others and left devastating damage in parts of Illinois.Brookport, Ill., in Massac County near the Kentucky line, was particularly hard hit. At least two people were confirmed to have died, and police with dogs were going door to door to search for trapped residents. With roads entering the city closed by debris and downed power lines, Brookport authorities imposed a 6 p.m.-to-6 a.m. curfew.At least four other people were killed in Illinois, the state Emergency Management Agency told NBC News. An 80-year-old man and his 78-year-old sister were killed near New Minden, according to Washington County Coroner Mark Styninger, and unidentified victims were confirmed dead in Washington city and in Unionville."All of a sudden, the wind started picking up, and [my wife] said, 'We've got to get in the basement right now!'" Steve Bucher of Washington told NBC station WEEK of Peoria."Within less than a minute, everything started collapsing inside the house, cracking, sputtering," he said. "Next thing we know, it's light inside the garage."After bringing rain and tornadoes to Illinois, what will this weather system do next? Mike Seidel of The Weather Channel reports.By early evening, 37 people were being treated at St. Francis Hospital in Peoria, seven of them as trauma patients. Numerous injuries were also reported in Massac County, and with communications difficult and many roads impassable, it remained unclear how many other people might be hurt.At WEEK-TV, newscasters had to go off the air abruptly as they realized they themselves were in the path of the twister. According to the National Weather Service, the station's roof was damaged. Steve Smedley / APA storm system spun off multiple tornadoes killing several people and flattening an entire neighborhood.In Tazewell County in central Illinois, emergency crews were responding to a tornado that flattened homes in several neighborhoods. The cities with reported damage include Washington, Perkin and East Peoria, county spokeswoman Sara Sparkman told NBC News. Pictures from Washington showed an expansive trail of wood debris from homes torn apart as the twister laid waste to one neighborhood.East Peoria Mayor Dave Mingus said about 100 homes were damaged in his city of more than 23,000 residents, with 25 to 50 destroyed and uninhabitable.The Red Cross was working with the county to open up shelters in the area for families whose homes were damaged.Altogether, The Weather Channel recorded 40 reports of tornadoes: 16 in Indiana, 14 in Illinois, eight in Kentucky and one each in Missouri and Ohio. There were more than 250 reports of wind damage or high winds across eight states. At least 83,000 customers were without electric power Sunday evening in Illinois, most of those in the Peoria area, said Jonathon Monken, director of the Illinois Emergency management Agency.Rescue teams were deploying to multiple areas across the state, focusing on the hard-hit Washington and Gifford areas, Monken said.Damage extended across the region, with damage reported as far east as Kentucky.Corey Mayes of Corydon in Henderson County, Ky., said he, his wife and their 4-year-old dashed downstairs as a tornado rushed through.A violent storm system spawned tornadoes in central Illinois. NBC's Kevin Tibbles reports. "I yelled at everybody to get down to the basement, and I checked on my family and ran back up," Mayes told NBC station WFIE of nearby Fort Wayne, Ind."About that time, it had already come across the street and was trying to touch back down," he said. "It just sucked back up and blew on over."Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn warned residents that the weather and storms across the state were "very serious."In Chicago, the Baltimore Ravens-Chicago Bears NFL game was delayed because of the weather, and the seating area at Soldier Field was evacuated. The game resumed at about 2:20 p.m. (3:20 p.m. ET) after a nearly two-hour delay.The highest threat area for tornadoes was eastern Illinois into Indiana, southern Michigan, western Kentucky and western Ohio, but dangerous winds were also a concern as the storms move across the Appalachians as well as parts of the Northeast into early Monday, the National Weather Service said.Significant damage was reported in Lebanon, Ind., where Elizabeth MacDougal was in a Starbucks when a possible tornado appeared. "I was looking out the front window of the Starbucks and I was actually on the phone with my mom saying, 'Hey, we're entering some not-so-nice weather here,'" McDougal told NBC station WTHR of Indianapolis."And then all of a sudden, I see this white cloud, and I'm like, 'Oh, that's moving funny,'" she said. "And then my eyes tracked downward, and that's when the debris started to kick up. And that's when I said, 'Mom, I gotta go!'"The windows of the Starbucks were shattered, and vehicles in the parking lot were overturned, WTHR reported.Wind and hail could cause downed trees and scattered power failures across a broad area from Chicago to Buffalo.The Weather Channel predicted that the storm would diminish as it moved east through Pennsylvania, Maryland and New Jersey, but high winds could reach as far as New York on Monday morning.Michelle Acevedo, Christopher Essner, Azhar Fateh, Elisha Fieldstadt, Alastair Jamieson, Christopher E. Nelson and Julmary Zambrano of NBC News contributed to this report.This story was originally published on Sun Nov 17, 2013 6:28 PM EST