The National Weather Service has extended a tornado watch for much of Central Illinois previously set to end at 11 p.m. Tuesday. It is now in effect until 2 a.m. Wednesday.
The watch includes Adams, Brown, Fulton, Know, Marshall, Mason, McLean, Peoria, Schuyler, Stark, Tazewell, and Woodford counties in Illinois. The weather service says the risk of tornadoes, damaging winds, and hail continues into the overnight hours.
While Bloomington-Normal and the Greater Peoria area were spared during the first wave of severe weather Tuesday evening, a storm chaser reported a brief tornado touchdown about two miles north of Pontiac in Livingston County. Further to the northeast, a reported tornado caused "significant damage" in Kankakee.
Unit 5, the largest school district in McLean County, canceled all after-school practices, music programs, clubs, games, and events Tuesday due to the forecast for severe weather.
