HOMER, Ill. (AP) — The National Weather Service is confirming that at least four tornadoes swept through east-central Illinois.
Personnel from the weather service’s Lincoln office are surveying damage Saturday in Champaign and Vermillion Counties.
They don’t yet have details on the intensity of Friday evening’s tornadoes, which hit those two counties as well as Clark County.
There were no reports of serious injuries, but properties were damaged or destroyed near the Champaign County villages of Sidney and Homer, where a tornado was on the ground for 17 minutes.
The (Champaign) News-Gazette reports that a 116-year-old farmhouse just southwest of Homer and an RV in Sidney were destroyed.
Picture: Family and friends help look for Brenda and Rodney Baird’s dog and two cats, at their house southwest of Homer, Ill., after it was hit by a tornado on Friday, Sept. 9, 2016. The Baird’s house was knocked completely off it’s foundation and destroyed. No one was home at the time of the tornado, and there were no injuries.(John Dixon/The News-Gazette via AP)
By Associated Press
September 12, 2016, 7:24 am
