derecho

Monday night's storms brought strong winds and thousands of power outages.

Hope for the best while you prepare for the worst. That would be a good phrase to keep in mind Monday as most of Wisconsin faces the potential for a widespread damaging wind event based on computer models just shared.

It was quite a wind event in Missouri, Illinois and Iowa today as winds equaling a category 1 hurricane were reported in many locations.

It was quite a wind event in Missouri, Illinois and Iowa today as winds equaling a category 1 hurricane were reported in many locations.

We thought we had a pretty big weather event when strong rain and winds whipped through the Rockford area on Monday.

Monday afternoon's powerful storm left a wake of destruction across northern Illinois.