Elderly Couple Found Dead in Their Home After ‘Large Tornado’ Struck

“No names are being released at this time pending positive identification and notification of the next of kin,” officials said

Two people died after a series of at least four tornadoes struck parts of Illinois and Indiana.

In a Wednesday, March 11 update, the National Weather Service (NWS) in Chicago said a number of several intense supercell thunderstorms — defined as a thunderstorm with a “persistent and deep rotation”— traveled across northern Illinois and northwestern Indiana on Tuesday, March 10.

“One supercell was responsible for a family of tornadoes (at least 4) across Livingston and Kankakee counties in Illinois, and Newton, Jasper, and Starke counties in northwestern Indiana,” the agency said…

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