The ultimate tornado depend is in for Sunday’s calamitous storm device: No fewer than 14 twisters struck Illinois and northwest Indiana, harmful virtually 700 properties and killing eight individuals. That professional assessment comes from the Nationwide Weather Service, whose submit-storm survey groups determined that the strongest tornadoes hit Washington, In poor health., just outside Peoria. There, winds hit one hundred ninety miles per hour, a category EF-four tornado (EF-5 is the strongest measure there is), leveling lots of of properties across a stretch of forty six miles thru Tazewell and Woodford counties. Between 250 and 500 homes have been destroyed in Washington, says Sara Parkman, public information officer for Tazewell County Emergency Administration Agency.