Overview
- Allen and Brenda Gray are staying in hotels and say they will rebuild on their Aroma Park lot after losing walls, windows, a roof, a garage and vehicles.
- Darrell Arseneau and his wife survived by huddling in their bathtub as their home of 35 years was destroyed, which he believes is not salvageable.
- The National Weather Service office in Chicago has preliminarily rated the Aroma Park tornado an EF-3.
- Meteorologists report the tornado was one of a family of twisters from a single supercell that tracked from northern Illinois toward DeMotte, Indiana, over 36.6 miles.
- Two people in their 80s were killed in Lake Village, Indiana, by the same storm system, according to published reports.