tornado video – Footage filmed near a home in Streator, Illinois captured a tornado tearing through the city after severe storms moved across Illinois and parts of the Midwest. The outbreak left at least one person dead in Iowa, and hundreds of thousands remained without powe
A video recorded near a home in Streator, Illinois, shows a tornado charging through the city—so close the filmer said it was nearly within a mile.
The footage, filmed Thursday, June 11 by Valeria Moore, shows the storm cutting through neighborhoods as homes are destroyed. Moore said the tornado passed by less than a mile away from her house. “It’s right here!” she is heard saying in the video.
The tornado was one of multiple confirmed reports as severe thunderstorms swept through Illinois and northwestern Indiana. The National Weather Service in Chicago said that on Thursday, June 11, multiple tornadoes hit Illinois and northwestern Indiana, with some causing notable damage in each state.
About 100 miles southwest of Chicago, Streator sits in the heart of the hardest-hit weather footprint. Multiple houses were destroyed as storms moved through north-central Illinois, according to Storyful.
Across the wider region, the storms carried a lethal toll. In Iowa, on June 11, a man in Des Moines was killed when a tree fell on a homeless encampment, reported the Des Moines Register.
Power outages spread alongside the wind and damage. Across Illinois, Indiana and Michigan, over 350,000 people were without power after the storms, according to a power outage tracker.
As of Friday, June 12, at 9 a.m. ET, the outage counts were 224,649 in Illinois, 95,307 in Indiana and 63,997 in Michigan.
In the days leading up to the June 11 outbreak, tornadoes and large hail had already been reported across Iowa, Illinois, Michigan and Indiana. AccuWeather said the storms left behind damage including downed trees, downed power lines and power outages across the Midwest.
The sequence of reports—tornadoes in Illinois and northwestern Indiana. at least one fatality in Des Moines. and large-scale outages spanning three states—underscores how quickly a single storm system can shift from dramatic footage to widespread disruption. For people like Moore, the danger was immediate and close enough to be seen from the sidewalk.
The latest numbers show the aftermath still unfolding in the morning hours of June 12, with tens of thousands of customers remaining in the dark across the Midwest.
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