According to officials, one of the three EF-0 tornadoes crashed in the Oak Brook suburb, while the other two tornadoes both crashed in different parts of Boone County. The first tornado fell in Oak Brook near a Hilton hotel and the Willow Crest Golf Club, officials said. This twist, which was categorized as an EF-0 tornado on the enhanced Fujita scale, had an estimated maximum wind speed of 75 mph and reached a maximum width of 60 yards. The tornado was on the ground for about 1.9 miles, and while it was there it broke tree branches and caused the roof of an auxiliary building to collapse on the golf course. He was on the ground for three minutes before getting up. A second EF-0 tornado was reported in Boone County near Timberlane. This tornado, which reached an estimated maximum wind speed of 80 miles per hour, was on the ground for about a minute at 5:55 p.m. and traveled half a mile, reaching a maximum width of 60 yards. Many trees were uprooted and broken at the beginning of the tornado path and several floating docks were dumped in Lake Candlewick, officials said. A third tornado was reported about 12 minutes later in Capron. The extremely short tornado fell in the open field near the intersection of Coon Trail and Capron streets, and caused no known damage, with unknown speed and wind width. Officials also said that after an exhaustive investigation, using drone footage from the Rockford Fire Department and Doppler radar data from Chicago and Milwaukee, that the damage from the Rockford storm was not caused by a tornado, but by linear winds of 70 miles. per hour. The straight winds caused the roof of a building near the intersection of 9th and Broadway streets in Rockford to collapse. The winds also caused additional damage to the roof of other buildings and broke power poles and tree branches in the area. All data is preliminary and subject to change.
