Tornadoes touch down in Kankakee County

The National Weather Service is confirming at least six tornadoes hit northern Illinois on Friday.  Two tornadoes hit Kankakee County. The weather service says an EF1 tornado, with winds of up to 110 miles an hour touched down in Momence, damaging two apartment buildings on Harvard Street. The second Kankakee county tornado was classified as an EF0 and caused damage in the City of Kankakee – including downed trees and power lines and there were reports of a partially collapsed wall at the Valspar Facility on Fair Street.  One funnel cloud traveled from far north Minooka to Shorewood to the west side of Joliet, while another started in central Minooka and headed eastward to the Des Plaines River.  Other tornadoes traveled from Newark to Lisbon and from Midewin Prairie to Wilton Center to northwest of Peotone.