Shortly before 9 p.m. on June 23, a tornado with wind speeds up to 125 miles per hour cut a two-mile path of destruction through South Bend, Indiana. A potentially treacherous stovepipe tornado was reported in northern Indiana`s St. Joseph County a few minutes later, at 9:15 p.m. A day earlier, tornadoes touched down in Texas, Colorado, Nebraska and Kansas. The storms left thousands of Indiana, Louisiana, Texas, Mississippi, Kentucky and Arkansas businesses and residences without power. These tornadoes were part of a rapidly-advancing series of severe windstorms -known as a `derecho`-that battered much of the U.S. last weekend, beginning in Nebraska and stretching to the coast of South...
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