Kevin Lighty - WCIA 3 Chief Meteorologist @KevinLighty
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Tornado near Dwight, IL Thursday evening. Video from Ken Cline.
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This was up near Dwight, IL, a large wedge tornado that moved through northeast Livingston county Thursday evening. Thanks to Kenneth Cline for the photo.
All right folks, the severe weather threat is over for tonight. An interesting day with a very powerful squall line with embedded tornadoes and widespread 70mph winds. Thanks to all who sent in pictures and videos. Thanks to all who trusted us with the coverage! I’ll leave you with this picture of myself from our TV coverage as I watched a power line arcing and sparking across from the TV station. Goodnight all!
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Classic supercell structure with confirmed tornado south of Dwight.
Timing for storms tonight in central Illinois.
Photos from our Katie Moore at the Springfield airport. Hangars destroyed. You can see some aircraft parts and a speed limit sign snapped at the base.
Parts of an airplane hanger wrapped around the sign to the Springfield Abraham Lincoln capital airport.
Power outage numbers as of 2:30am. Almost 11,000 in Sangamon county and nearly 2,800 in Piatt county.
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Alot of damage around Mechanicsburg, looks to be ef0 to ef1 damage. Tornado looks to have went through the middle of town
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Such a cool picture. Taken tonight east of Paris from Stacey Pruitt.
Ok folks, big heads up for Thursday. A rather intense line of storms is expected to blow through. This could be a high end wind event. This is one of those 80+mph setups. Stay weather aware as we fine tune the forecast.
Shelf cloud moving into Springfield. Strong storm about to hit.
Wrapping up with Forsyth and Mansfield. Lots of driving today, but a lot of updates for the collection.
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