By Benjamin Cox on May 4, 2021 at 7:20am
Downed power in rural Tallula. (Courtesy of Menard County Electric Co-Op Facebook Page)
A storm system that produced multiple tornado touchdowns across Central Illinois left no significant reported property damage yesterday evening.
Severe storms began trekking across the area at approximately 4PM yesterday afternoon. Large hail was first reported to the west of Mt. Sterling at approximately 3:52PM. Within a half hour, the storm began producing ping-pong ball sized hail in the region. Super cells began forming around 4:28PM just west of Virginia.
At 4:45, storm spotters confirmed cloud rotation and a tornado touchdown between Virginia and Pleasant Plains. The straight-line winds from the system knocked out power to the Menard Electric Co-op in north Morgan County for Literberry and Arcadia. Reports of larger sized hail also came in from southeastern Cass County. Outages remained through the evening time in areas east of V