MANHATTAN, Ill. (AP) – The National Weather Service says at least one tornado touched town in northern Illinois as severe storms swept through the area Tuesday.
Weather Service meteorologist Eric Lenning says a storm survey conducted Wednesday determined that an EF-1 tornado with maximum winds of about 95 mph swept through the Will County community of Manhattan on Tuesday evening.
He says mostly trees were damaged along the storm’s mile-long path of damage.
Lenning says an area southeast of Manhattan where residents had filmed a funnel cloud was also surveyed but there were no signs a touchdown there.
The survey crew also found no damage in an area of Kane County where residents said a tornado may have briefly touched down.
Tuesday’s storms caused flooding along and north of Interstate 88.