The historical comparisons are evident. The National Weather Service’s Paducah office – which assessed the damage from the Perryville tornado – released its final storm report on Saturday. According to the NWS, the twister is not only the longest-track tornado in this region since 1981 – spending an incredible one hour and 2 minutes on…
1 death reported in Ottawa tornado; nursing home also damaged
BLOOMINGTON — One person was killed in Ottawa and emergency crews are looking for people trapped in rubble in the neighboring town of Naplate in the wake of a string of severe, late-winter storms that raked across northern Illinois. The National Weather Service reported a tornado touched down in Ottawa, about 70 miles north of…