Monday, April 03, 2006

Storm leaves trail of damage

Another Sunday night in our basement watching the WAND Channel 17 Storm Center Doppler Radar... Man, it got dark - real dark - in a huge hurry last night!
The powerful storm system that moved through East Central Illinois seemed to strike fast, but weather trackers were watching it long before the tornado warning sirens went off in Champaign County.

"This line of storms originated in central Missouri earlier today. It held together pretty well," Rick Atterberry, public information officer for the Champaign County Emergency Management Agency, said Sunday.

Atterberry said the storm moved northeast and left a string of tornado warnings in its path by the time it reached the local area.
Storm leaves trail of damage

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