Severe storms led to multiple tornadoes across the Midwest on April 16, causing significant damage in some areas.
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00:00 We'll continue to track a severe weather set up here in the parts of Wisconsin, Illinois and Iowa.
00:06 And just to reset on the big picture here, you can see numerous thunderstorms.
00:10 And the worst of these are draped in an area here from around western Illinois, far eastern parts of Iowa,
00:18 near Davenport and up in the southern parts of Wisconsin.
00:21 And then there is one additional severe cell cruising from eastern parts of Illinois, soon to reach Indiana.
00:26 But I wanted to draw your attention to this tornado-worn cell.
00:30 We've seen a lot of damage out there.
00:32 Mediapolis in Iowa had some buildings splintered.
00:36 You can see an agricultural building with the trusses just strewn across the yard there.
00:40 The roofing sheet metal and material just scattered across some of the agricultural equipment there.
00:45 And this storm here, we can see a little more clearly from the Milwaukee radar site, is showing some rotation here.
00:53 It's moving somewhat slowly. It's only moving at about 20 to 30 miles per hour.
00:58 But this radar data is coming from the east, from Milwaukee.
01:01 And overall, we can see that the red is where part of the storm is moving away from the radar site.
01:07 So that's what the red is here. And then the green is the inverse of that.
01:10 And we have a zone here where there is a bit more of a conflict here between the green and the red.
01:15 So we have some rotation in an area just north of Wyota.
01:19 And we are concerned about the risk for a severe storm.
01:23 So turning the reports on, not seeing any new reports out of that particular cell.
01:27 But eastern Lafayette County of Wisconsin under a tornado warning until 8 o'clock Central Time.
01:34 Elsewhere farther south, you can see some more severe thunderstorm warnings in the parts of Stephenson County,
01:38 Joe Davis County of Illinois, Carroll County, Illinois.
01:41 And then to the east of Davenport, we're looking at Henry County, Illinois, a chunk of Rock Island County, Illinois.
01:45 And also to the south, into Mercer County, Warren County, and Henderson.
01:48 And then also into that other area just north of Paris, soon to reach the Wabash River there
01:54 as this storm cruises across eastern Illinois into Indiana, just west of Clinton, Indiana, near Paris, Illinois.