Day After Washington, Illinois Tornado: EF4, Aerial Video, Identifies of 6 Killed in Illinois, 1834 State Farm Claims

Washington IL tornado confirmed as EF-4, Rich Lancaster braved video capture and suffered eye injury from debris [...]

Gov. Quinn tours tornado damage in Washington, Illinois  [...]

Washington IL tornado damage raw video from Chopper 7 Chicago [...]

Six people killed in Sunday’s storms in Illinois: Kathy George, 58; Robert Harmon, 56; and Scholitta Burrus, 63 in Massac County; Joseph R. Hoy, 80, of New Minden, and his sister Frances J. Hoy, 78 in Washington County; and Steve Neubauer, of Washington in Tazewell County [...]

Bloomington, Illinois-based State Farm (1-800-SF-CLAIM) reports it received 1,834 homeowners’ claims due to tornadoes and other Sunday severe weather damage in Washington, Coal City, Gifford and other Illinois cities [...]

Video shows tornadoes moving across the Midwest and devastation left in the wake of the storms.

CNN's Ted Rowlands talks to residents of Washington, Illinois town, especially Michelle Crumrine, as they tally up what a tornado took and what survived.

PRELIMINARY NWS DAMAGE SURVEY FOR 11/17/13 TORNADO EVENT IN  WASHINGTON, ILLINOIS [NWS ...]

PRELIMINARY RATING:     EF-4
ESTIMATED PEAK WIND:    170-190 MPH
PATH LENGTH /STATUTE/:  Not determined at this time
PATH WIDTH /MAXIMUM/:   Not determined at this time
FATALITIES:             1 confirmed
INJURIES:               75 (estimated)

START DATE:             Nov 17 2013
START TIME:             11:05 am CST

PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHICAGO IL
350 PM CST MON NOV 18 2013 /135 PM EST MON NOV 18 2013/

...THREE EF-1 TORNADOES CONFIRMED IN NORTHWEST INDIANA ON SUNDAY...

A NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DAMAGE SURVEY TEAM HAS CONFIRMED THREE
EF-1 TORNADOES OCCURRED IN NORTHWEST INDIANA ON SUNDAY.

ONE TORNADO OCCURRED ABOUT 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF RENSSELAER IN
JASPER COUNTY...ANOTHER TRACKED FROM NEWTON INTO JASPER COUNTY NEAR
GOODLAND...AND A THIRD TORNADO TRACK WAS FOUND IN SOUTHEAST BENTON
COUNTY.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION WILL BE FORTHCOMING WHEN THE SURVEY TEAM
RETURNS TO THE OFFICE THIS EVENING.

A STORM SURVEY TEAM FROM THE CHICAGO NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
OFFICE HAS DETERMINED THERE WAS AN EF-2 TORNADO ACROSS FAR SOUTH LA
SALLE AND NORTHWEST LIVINGSTON COUNTIES. THE PRELIMINARY PATH OF
THE TORNADO WAS FROM DANA TO JUST SOUTH OF LONG POINT. MORE
DETAILS ON THE STRENGTH AND EXACT PATH OF THE TORNADO WILL BE
AVAILABLE LATER THIS AFTERNOON.

PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHICAGO IL
602 PM CST SUN NOV 17 2013 /702 PM EST SUN NOV 17 2013/

...INITIAL EF-2 TORNADO DAMAGE FOUND NEAR COAL CITY...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STORM DAMAGE SURVEY TEAMS HAVE FOUND
PRELIMINARY TORNADO DAMAGE NEAR COAL CITY OF EF-2 MAGNITUDE. THIS
IS ONLY ONE PART OF THE DAMAGE PATH WITH MORE SET TO BE ASSESSED
ON MONDAY.

EF-SCALE...
NUMBER  MAXIMUM WIND GUST
-------------------------
EF-0        65-85 MPH
EF-1        86-110 MPH
EF-2        111-135 MPH
EF-3        136-165 MPH
EF-4        166-200 MPH
EF-5        OVER 200 MPH