Tornado, Tazewell Co., IL, 6/4/08

Tornado in northeast Tazewell County, IL, taken looking northwest from a couple miles northwest of Danvers, IL. Unfortunately, the video is a little out of focus, but you can clearly see the tornado.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• tornado
• severe
• storm

[rockavenger]

Are you a spotter, or is this just a hobby of your's?

[johnefarley]

Both, actually.

[rockavenger]

I don't know where you're from but just a word of advice. Tazewell is pronounced like "Tazwell" and Mclean is pronounced like "Mclain."

[johnefarley]

Thanks.  I'm from down south around Edwardsville, and although I drive through there a lot, I was not aware of the correct pronunciations. Sorry!

[MaryPoppinsBroadway]

yall remind me of the guys in Twister, who are my heros, u guys rock!

[prairiestormwx]

nice catch john... we saw the possibility over central Illinois but couldn't bring ourselves to not go to nebraska.

[fosho420]

me and my girlfriend just missed this one. We were about 10 minutes away when we heard about it over my cb. tried to intercept but traffic caused us to bust. glad you got this video!

[rockavenger]

No problem, I was just throwing that out there. Some people can get pretty nuts about it. It's like when someone pronounced the S in Illinois, I've seen people almost die for that.

[wxdroid]

incredible storm structure!