Illiinois Tornado

I was just looking at videos on youtube and ran across this. I live about 10 miles from where this thing hit and I was still asleep when the storms went through. It really makes me wonder what would have happened had it happened just a little more north west and stuck while I was asleep. Has anyone else experienced a tornado like this? I just moved from Texas to Illinois earlier this year and have been through a few small weak tornadoes that tear shingles off of roofs and break branches, but I've never thought of the sheer power these things can really possess.

Tornadoes are the precise reason why I don't live in or anywhere near the midwest. Those things terrify me.

i live a bit ways away, in Mascoutah. the wind was fucking fierce that morning.

@caseystryker: Holy shit, where do you live? I'm in glasford, just outside of Peoria, probably about 40-ish minutes away from washington. Never thought I'd meet anyone in the area on here.

Anywho, yeah its bad. This is the worst tornado that has hit the area in a while that i can recall. Usually we don;t get them, at least not like this. Thoughts are with the family. Apprantly it was an F4 tornado as well.

I moved to Peoria off of War Memorial and Grand Prairie.

Nice man, I hope you like the area:)

Just watched the vid, and man....words cannot describe. I have never seen an actual video like that, it was a basically a before/during/after. The sound was so awful hearing the wind rushing and the wood bending and break. And it moved so fast too, thats the amazing part, it looked like it was still a ways off. Sirens jsut started going off when it hit too:( thats just scary.

Thanks, it's a big change coming from the Dallas area to here, but I like it. It's much more slow paced, which is a good thing, but I swear the cold weather is going to kill me. BTW, as bad as I feel about what happened to this family, I couldn't stop thinking to myself that he sounds just like Kenny Powers.

Tornado's would think twice to mess with me. Which is why I still haven't seen one yet in my life. Probably. Yeah.

I live in Peoria which is 10 mile from Washington where it was hit, it was rain and heavy win but I was just relax on my computer surfing the net as usual... my g/f lives in Sunny Land, she was dropping off her daughter off to work in Washington Taco Bell which the tornado hit right across the street just 10 minutes before the hit.. we all still alive, talked about luck.

Yeah, about half of my hometown (I haven't lived there in almost a decade) in southern Illinois pretty much got flattened. My grandfather's house was destroyed in the tornado.

There is not one State in the continental US that has not been hit by a tornado at one time or another over the last 56 years. The vast majority hit east of the Rockies, but even then, they have them in Washington, Oregon, California, Idaho etc.

Tornado Tracks Over The Last 56 Years of All Strengths shows where they have touched down and the approximate length of the track on the ground. I see one that traveled through three States, Louisiana, Mississippi and into Tennessee.