The Guardian: Tornadoes and heavy winds destroy homes and roads across US midwest
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/19/tornadoes-heavy-winds-damage-midwest
The Guardian: Tornadoes and heavy winds destroy homes and roads across US midwest
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/19/tornadoes-heavy-winds-damage-midwest
Tornadoes touch down in Rochester area
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/04/17/tornadoes-touch-down-in-rochester-area
The sky is attempting to wipe Peoria off the map. There are maybe 6 or 7 potential or confirmed tornadoes bearing down on the area.

People keep parking under overpasses during storms. No. No no no no. The wind compresses, strengthens, and, no kidding, you really don't want to be in a wind tunnel during a wind storm.

Tornado outbreak strikes central US
An outbreak of powerful severe thunderstorms in the central US has already produced multiple tornadoes Friday afternoon and it wonโt stop there. Widespread damaging wind gusts and flooding rainfall are still to come as storms hit areas already battered by a multi-day onslaught of twisters, massive hail and historic flooding. #weather #tornadoes #centralus
https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/17/weather/severe-thunderstorm-outbreak-hail-tornadoes-central-us-climate-hnk
14 active tornado warnings.

Reminds me of this familiar painting at the Minneapolis Institute of Art.
"Though not the most devastating tornado to hit the Twin Cities areaโsix dead, eleven injuredโthe Lake Gervais twister of July 13, 1890, became one of the most famous. When it struck, a photographer happened to have his camera set up on a bluff overlooking St. Paul. He captured dramatic images that were published as souvenir cards, which the Norwegian-born Minneapolis house painter Julius Holm used as the basis for this painting, created three years later."
https://collections.artsmia.org/art/2490/tornado-over-st-paul-julius-holm
Holy mackerel. Good video compilation of what tornadoes look like.
Tornado moves through Rochester area
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QO2CXo1IFHg
