{"id":1567,"date":"2026-06-11T13:07:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T13:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arizonamovinginsider.com\/?p=1567"},"modified":"2026-06-11T13:07:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T13:07:17","slug":"midwest-reels-from-tornadoes-damaging-winds-and-widespread-power-outages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arizonamovinginsider.com\/?p=1567","title":{"rendered":"Midwest reels from tornadoes, damaging winds and widespread power outages"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>Damaging storms swept through the Midwest, knocking out power to hundreds of thousands of customers and causing more than a thousand flight delays or cancellations at Chicago airports with more potentially severe weather expected Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/arizonamovinginsider.com\/?p=1565\">Inflation forces Gilbert pastry shop to close Mesa location as rising costs hit small businesses hard<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The National Weather Service said it received more than a dozen reports of tornadoes Wednesday across northern Missouri, Iowa, Kansas and Illinois. There were no immediate reports of injuries or deaths.<\/p>\n<p><b>RELATED STORY | <\/b><b>Forecast calls for below-normal Atlantic hurricane season amid El Ni\u00f1o conditions<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Weather service meteorologist Frank Pereira said the frontal system that produced the storms, including high winds and hail, was moving eastward Thursday. There was also a slight risk of severe thunderstorms in parts of the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic. The storms are being fueled by cool air from Canada clashing with warm, humid air from the South.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGoing forward, we\u2019re expecting another area of severe weather to develop across portions of the central Plains, Midwest, particularly from Iowa, northern Missouri, northeastward through the Great Lakes,\u201d Pereira said. \u201cAgain, it\u2019s all tied into a pretty well-defined frontal system.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Storms moved into the Chicago area on Wednesday afternoon, downing trees and damaging some buildings.<\/p>\n<p>The two major Chicago airports, Chicago O\u2019Hare International Airport and Chicago Midway International Airport, temporarily put all flights on hold in the evening due to thunderstorms. A similar ground stop was issued at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York due to thunderstorms.<\/p>\n<p>By Wednesday evening, more than 1,000 flights going into and out of Chicago had been delayed or canceled, according to FlightAware, a flight tracking website.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/arizonamovinginsider.com\/?p=1563\">MOST ACCURATE FORECAST: Heat builds as storm chances return to Arizona<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>RELATED STORY | <\/b><b>Fast-moving storms batter the Midwest, flooding streets and stranding commuters<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Air traffic appeared to return to normal Thursday morning, with only 24 flight cancellations and 34 delays nationwide, FlightAware reported.<\/p>\n<p>Strong winds blew part of the roof off an apartment building in the Chicago area, forcing residents to leave, according to NBC 5 Chicago. Elsewhere, barns collapsed in Wisconsin, buildings were crushed in rural northern Missouri and some large trees and power lines were downed in other areas across the Midwest, photos and video online showed.<\/p>\n<p>Around 390,000 customers had no electricity in the Midwest on Thursday. There were nearly 226,000 outages in Illinois, including around 150,000 in Cook County, while 85,000 homes and businesses were without power in Michigan, according to poweroutage.us.<\/p>\n<p>Commonwealth Edison Company, which provides electric service across northern Illinois, said the storms had downed poles and wires.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know this is challenging and will restore service as safely and quickly as conditions allow,\u201d the company said in a post on X.<\/p>\n<p>The storms soaked Rate Field in Chicago before Wednesday night\u2019s game between the White Sox and the Atlanta Braves.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/arizonamovinginsider.com\/?p=1561\">US makes new \u2018self-defense strikes\u2019 against Iran in response to Apache helicopter incident<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Severe storms and tornadoes hit the Midwest, causing mass power outages, flight disruptions, and more storms expected Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1566,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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