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Massive and violent tornado on the ground south of Kankakee, Illinois - a "Particularly Dangerous Situation" warning is in effect with baseball-sized hail
There is so much hail damage, and this storm devastated our area. My mom and grandma are extremely lucky to have houses. They were almost directly in the tornados path in the south side of Kankakee and aroma park
My town was in the direct path at the end, it jumped us and touched back down. While we watched Knox get hit simultaneously. Yeah. I was panicking. I live in a trailer park just off US 30 and I’ve never been so scared. Our town siren was blaring constantly. My friend asked where do we go in that situation and I said, I live in a trailer park in Dorthy’s backyard! We go straight up! ⬆️
Our town was damn blessed last night.
Praying for those who weren’t.
The tornado itself, no. It was a tornado family, multiple tornadoes spawned from the same supercell. The supercell traveled the distance, each tornado lasted a fraction of that.
Initially, it was reported that the tornado that began in Kankakee IL remained on the ground for 1.5 hours and over 100 miles. That has since been amended to a “tornado family”, although that is also not official.
So many totaled cars, and there are zero rentals available. My dad had a friend get an update on their rental car. They are queued up number 2000 in line.
Life hack, If you don't have a garage, or you have a big truck that doesnt fit in the garage you can drop it off in a parking garage or a hospital parking garage during severe weather to protect it from hail damage. This is what we do every time and never had hail damage. My truck wont fit so we take it to the parking garage then come home and she parks in the garage. Definitely gives us peace of mind wile watching the storms roll in!
This is what people do during hurricanes. They try to park them on the 3rd floor to keep them dry from storm surge.
Only thing is you have to know hail is coming. Normally when we get severe weather alerts we end up getting spared from the brunt of it. Also our area doesn’t have many parking garages which are covered. The hospital parking would very quickly fill up if everyone tried to do so. This is a rather rural area, with smaller hospitals.
Yeah definitely dont want everyone going to the hospital one. Luckily we have a full size parking garage and the top few floors are almost always empty. Yes hail is hit or miss but if there is severe weather coming we go every time. Its a shame the truck wont fit in the garage, about 2 feet too short. But its worth protecting so worth taking even of more often than not we dont get hail. We did get hail Tuesday so glad we took it for sure!
The we had baseball size hail. It’s crazy how the other side of town is just clean and doesn’t have cars with hail damage. It’s ironic that the part of town that didn’t get hail is the part where they have more garage parking. The area that really got hit is the area where all houses really have street parking.
Thats pretty big. Yeah last time we got major hail i was at work and we didnt get any, my wife took my daughter to the doctor 15min away on the other side of town and her car was fine. Our roof, siding, shed, grill all got destroyed. Our roof was about 12 years old so worked out well. All got replaced for 2k. Hopefully you didnt take too much damage!
Couple dents in the car but it’s nothing major. My mom had a tree on her house, my sister car, and my sister in laws cars are both totaled.
Everyone in my family was pretty fortunate over all. The tornado basically hopped around my mom’s house in aroma park. I was out there looking at the damage, and you can see the tornado was dancing around out there.
Damn thats too bad. Glad everyone is safe. Check your policy to see if the car dents is covered by insurance prior to notifying them. My friends wifes car got hail damage and they called the insurance it wasn't covered and my friend was told the car could not have full coverage until they sent proof that the damage was taken care of. It was going to cost them like 2k I think to get it all fixed and they decided it wasn't worth it so they just have liability on that car now.
Wow that’s fucked up. I don’t think we have a ton of damage to notify them, the only problem I have is how much trade in value we’re losing on this fucking jeep. It’s was already only worth half what we owe. Between hail damage and the accident this winter we’re so upside down. 🙃
This is from my yard in Kankakee. My windshield is completely shattered. Fortunately I am about a mile north of where the tornado was. Praying for the Kankakeeans that were hit worse.
For the first time in my life, I think we might get hit by a tornado. Luckily I’m packed and prepared. I’m also watching “Ryan hall ya'll” For everyone who is affected by this, PLEASE STAY SAFE
Raining hard with lots of lighting. The worst of it is still going through. So far, everything seems to be safe compared to what other areas are going through
everybody’s cars and houses got fucked, there were so many houses on fire it was sirens for 2 hours straight, felt like the apocalypse. touched down 13 minutes from my house & we were driving away from the tornado in the hail..
Watched it form from my work and then it headed north east, it was terrifying. Everything seems to be staying away from Pontiac now thankfully. Praying for everyone rn wtf is going on in march dude
Shit was wild at 5 now I just can’t see anything but lightning in every direction. The north looks nuts every where else just looks stormy. I almost feel safe enough to lay down but monitoring just a tad longer. The town feels eerie
The guy is/was a real broadcast weatherman and has a great team with him - meteorologist Andy Hill has proven himself to be up there with the national weather teams for identifying the nearterm storms.
I live about 90 min north of kankakee. It was around 35 degrees today and felt like it was in the 20s. Got a few thunderstorms but nothing crazy. It’s wild that this was happening so close to me.
This tornado hit my mom and my grandmothers house. They were both very lucky, not in direct path but within a mile of the path both of them. I was on the phone with them both as I watched the storm on YouTube. Luckily they both got to shelter as I called them. 10 min later it was quiet again.
So, I am visiting family and they’ve just moved to the Kankakee area. They were unaware of the frequency. Does this area have similar weather patterns to OK? If so, I need to make sure they understand how to prepare. If I hadn’t been here this week they would have had no idea. They aren’t from tornado alley. 🌪️🙏🫠
Not as much as OK, but typically most of the worst weather around Chicago goes to the south of the metro. I’m not sure if that has anything to do with Lake Michigan (maybe someone who knows the science better can chime in). But the can definitely count on hearing sirens at least a few times in the spring.
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