FIVE INDIANA TORNADO TOUCHDOWNS WEDNESDAY NEAR MONTICELLO--100 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CHICAGO
Powerful thunderstorms erupted in downstate Indiana and Illinois Wednesday unleashing half a dozen twisters—five of which touched down in the area surrounding Monticello, Indiana. It's fortunate most of the touchdowns occurred in fields, reports WGN-TV weather observer Mary Anne Best of Remington, Indiana who forwarded these pictures of one twister taken by a friend. Mary Anne notes that Monticello was one of the communities severely damaged in the infamous "Super Outbreak" of 1974—the country's biggest single outbreak of tornadoes.
-Tom Skilling
