Updated Monday, March 16 at 3:00 a.m.
From Sunday evening through Monday morning, Champaign County and the surrounding areas experienced severe weather warnings, a sharp drop in temperatures, snow, and high winds. The weather headlines:
- Sunday at 6:44 p.m., the National Weather Service in Central Illinois issued a Tornado Warning for Champaign, Douglas, Moultrie, and Piatt Counties. Sunday at 7:12 p.m., another Tornado Warning was issued for Champaign, Douglas, and Vermilion Counties.
- Champaign County Emergency Management reported that a tree fell on a home in Tolono.
- In Douglas County, a possible tornado blew the roof off a barn in Arthur and carried several tree tops a few hundred feet. Downed tree branches were reported in other parts of the village.
- Until Monday at 10:00 a.m., a High Wind Warning is in effect for Champaign, Coles, DeWitt, Douglas, Macon, Moultrie, Piatt, Sangamon, and Vermilion Counties and surrounding areas. Meteorologists are expecting south winds 25 to 35 miles per hour with gusts up to 45 to 55 miles per hour. Overnight, the winds will switch directions to west-northwest.
- As of Sunday at 10:00 p.m., rain was switching to snowfall.