{"id":860249,"date":"2026-06-11T16:42:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T16:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/860249\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T16:42:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T16:42:11","slug":"several-illinois-counties-under-tornado-watch-after-wednesdays-severe-storms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/860249\/","title":{"rendered":"Several Illinois counties under tornado watch after Wednesday&#8217;s severe storms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>National Weather Service officials issued a tornado watch for several Illinois counties after severe thunderstorms <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/2026\/06\/11\/chicago-area-storms\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">tore through the area Wednesday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Several counties in Iowa also are under a tornado watch.<\/p>\n<p>In Illinois, the following counties are effected until 3 p.m.:<\/p>\n<p>Adams Brown, Bureau, Carroll, Fulton, Hancock, Henderson. Henry. Jo Daviess, Knox, Marshall McDonough, Mercer, Peoria, Putnam, Rock Island, Schuyler, Stark, Stephenson, Warren and Whiteside.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, several calls of tornado activity poured in but until weather officials investigate damage, no tornados have been confirmed as of Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"hwXXDpPXpP\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/2026\/06\/11\/chicago-area-storms\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Storms knock out power in Chicago area and disrupt flights<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As of Thursday morning, more than 160,000 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comed.com\/outages\/experiencing-an-outage\/outage-map\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ComEd customers<\/a> were without power. <\/p>\n<p>Showers and thunderstorms are likely before 2 p.m. with some of the storms becoming severe with winds up to 30 mph. Up to a tenth to a quarter inch of rain is expected with higher amounts possible during the thunderstorms, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday high temperatures in the 80s are expected, dropping to the high 50s in the night hours.<\/p>\n<p>Two rounds of severe storms are expected Thursday. The first round will be between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. when there is a threat for destructive winds and hail, officials warned. Flash flooding is a possibility. The second round of storms is expected between 4 and 11 p.m. with a threat of strong tornados and destructive winds, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Current conditions at O\u2019Hare International Airport are mostly cloudy at 81 degrees. At Midway Airport farther south conditions are similar at 80 degrees. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"National Weather Service officials issued a tornado watch for several Illinois counties after severe thunderstorms tore through the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":860250,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,6814,293846,7123,5386,1818,350859,164443],"class_list":["post-860249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chicago","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-forecast","tag-chicago-storms","tag-chicago-weather","tag-il","tag-illinois","tag-illinois-tornado-watch","tag-tornado-watch"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116732477285690952","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=860249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/860250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=860249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=860249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=860249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}