Video appears to show massive tornado in Chicago suburb

Storm cut a path of destruction in the Midwest that downed trees and cut power to hundreds of thousands. Video recorded in the Chicago suburb of Oswego appears to show a massive tornado. TODAY’s Al Roker tracks the latest forecast.

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[mogomoe]

I was at the Montrose beach at night and I was probably the only one there who seen something off with the lightning. It looked like a cylinder tornado, probably an EF-2 or EF-1. And I thought it was just one tornado until another lighting strike exposed a wall cloud with a funnel. When the lightning kept flashing the cylinder tornado kept forming and deforming itself and I never knew why. I already took videos of the thunder show, but at one point one of the lightning strikes exposed the tornado that kept forming and deforming itself, it was still a cylinder but massive, my guess would be that it was 1/10 of a mile wide. The same exact lightning strike exposed a rope tornado which looked pretty photogenic. The wind started getting crazy so I had to go to my car, but when I took a video of the same cylinder tornado that kept forming and deforming itself I was in absolute shock. That ominous tornado was a multiple vortices tornado and it was MASSIVE, at least 1/4 or even 1/3 of a mile wide and i thought that the tornado is definitely an EF-4. The craziest part about this outbreak is that I seen 3 tornadoes at once. UPDATE the only strong tornado was at Shannahon, Illinois, at least an EF-2 most of the other tornadoes including the tornadoes following Chicago were either EF-0’s or EF-1’s

[TonyTita]

I was in my basement for like an hour 😂😂😂😂

[JACOBSJohn]

I am in Joliet, Ill. and it has to get pretty bad for me to head to the basement. The winds were crazy out there.

[MrAnimefox]

The "massive" tornado was only an EF-1

[MarletHernandez-gw]

Yea I was crying 😢 it was so scary my power went out

[neb_youngan]

Everything turned off in my area it’s was like a mini emp grenade my whole complex went pinch black power came back on at like 4 in the morning

[dothanoodledance]

I’m so tired of this weather I live in the northern Chicagoland area. We been getting hit non stop 🤦🏻‍♀️.

[lizardomariana]

Man, i still cant believe the trees!!! 🤯 I wish i can help its horrible by Marquette park 💔

[johnwood]

I have video and pictures of the largest tornado 🌪️ ever. I was chasing a tornado about a 45 minutes from my house. The tornado was at El Reno Oklahoma. It was largest tornado on record

[arfita]

O Allah.. please save my brother and sister wherever they are. Ameeen

[demonplay]

I was born in Chicago but i moved to usa

[keithlewis]

MotherNature's way of trashing Chicago

[koofdome]

They were all like F0 or MAYBE f1 tornados people. Relax.

[courtw]

Hmm 🤔 sounds like project smart cities 🏙👀