The National Weather Service has confirmed large tornadoes have touched down near Streator and Dwight, Illinois Thursday. <\/p>\n
A tornado was impacting southern and southeastern portions of Streator as of 5:52 p.m., and residents were being urged to seek shelter immediately.<\/p>\n
Just after 6:15 p.m. another tornado was reported on the ground near Dwight, with a tornado warning issued for Grundy and Kankakee counties. <\/p>\n
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tA confirmed tornado has been observed with the warned cell, and the tornado will be near Streator at approximately 5:35 p.m.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Debris signatures were observed on Doppler radar as the storm moved through the Streator area. <\/p>\n
According to the National Weather Service, structures have been reported damaged on the south side of Streator, with Illinois State Police confirming damage to NWS. <\/p>\n
Tornado warnings are still ongoing in LaSalle, Grundy and Kankakee counties as the storms move to the east-northeast.<\/p>\n
We will update this breaking story with details as they become available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The National Weather Service has confirmed large tornadoes have touched down near Streator and Dwight, Illinois Thursday. A…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":698678,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,302417,451,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-698677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-chicago-severe-weather","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=698677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/698678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=698677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=698677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=698677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}