[LeArc] Tornado Confirmed by NWS

[Duane Whittingham]

This is from NWS Quad Cities:

04/02/2006 0530 PM

3 miles S of Blandinsville, McDonough County.

Tornado, reported by NWS storm survey.


Tornado began in Hancock County southeast of Fountain
Green. In McDonough County... hire township maintenance
garage destroyed... 1 metal pole barn destroyed and 1
heavily damaged... 7 grain bins destroyed and 4 heavily
damaged... and 2 wood barns destroyed along path. Most
damage occurred roughly 3 miles south of Blandinsville.
Originally reported by emergency management.


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Duane Whittingham - N9SSN
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