FORT WAYNE (ADAMS) – The Storm Prediction Center sayas it was a derecho blew across Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan, Indiana, and Ohio early Tuesday morning.
A derecho is a straight-line windstorm that occurs over a large area with wind gusts of at least 58 mph. The storm spawned several tornadoes along it’s leading edge including twisters at O’Hare and Midway airports in Chicago and in northern Indiana.
The National Weather Service has upgraded the tornado that hit Elkhart early Tuesday morning to an EF-1. It touched down around 12:20 a.m. just west of US-33 and went north. Trees fell on several homes, destroying them, and winds were at least 85-miles-an-hour.
As for our area, most damage was north west of the city of Fort Wayne.
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