High Wind in De Kalb, Illinois

Large branches were broken and fell onto power lines in Sandwich. The upper portion of a large tree was broken and landed on a house north of Sandwich. Nearby personal weather stations recorded gusts to between 60 and 70 mph at the time.

A line of showers and embedded thunderstorms moved across northern Illinois during the late morning and early afternoon of April 27th. On the back side of this precipitation, a wake low developed, producing wind gusts between 50 and 70 mph, which blew down trees, tree limbs and power lines. Scattered thunderstorms moved across east central Illinois during the evening of April 27th producing isolated wind damage.