Severe thunderstorms packing “destructive” winds tore across parts of Illinois and Wisconsin on Wednesday afternoon, knocking out power to more than 200,000 people and prompting urgent warnings from the National Weather Service (NWS).
The storms hitting Wisconsin and Illinois are part of a much broader multiday severe weather outbreak stretching across the Midwest, where forecasters warned that widespread dangerous thunderstorms were possible through Thursday.
More than 200 million people could be impacted, AccuWeather reported, with major cities including Chicago, Milwaukee and Green Bay in an area at risk for repeated rounds of storms…