Donation Options Search Search Search Share It was on this date in 1990 that a deadly F5 tornado hit Plainfield and the surrounding communities — the only F5 to hit the Chicago area — that ...

A tornado had smashed into Plainfield, in Will County ... Nobody in Plainfield saw the funnel cloud coming — an F5, the most powerful ever to hit the Chicago area. A Joliet radio station ...

The last week of August can bring a variety of weather to the American Midwest. Heat, humidity and sunshine are common themes from year to year, along with occasional cooler and drier spells as well.

On Tuesday, Aug. 28, 1990, an F5 tornado occurred in Plainfield, Ill. It's the only F5/EF5 tornado to hit the Chicago area and the only one of that magnitude to happen in the United States in August.

since a F5 tornado struck Plainfield on August 28, 1990. This was the strongest tornado on record (since 1950) for both Ogle and DeKalb Counties. It the first EF-4 tornado or stronger in Illinois ...

SAFE.) My reaction stems from Aug. 28, 1990: The day an F5 tornado hit my hometown, Plainfield, when 29 people died, including my parents' paperboy, my high school biology teacher, parents of ...