Chicago Tornado of 2020

The Chicago Tornado of 2020, was a rare super destructive multivortex EF5 Tornado that did incredible damage during the 2020 NBA Allstar game at the United Center. Although the tornado missed the statdium itself, the damage inflicted on the city of Chicago was so significant that it required Martial law, nation wide to be declared for more than two weeks as the entire city grid was in a  blackout and the pentagon had assumed a nuclear device was set off downtown. Overall, the tornado is said to have killed an esitamed 3,200 people (with an additional 44 indirect deaths), injured 9,950 others, and caused damages amounting to a total of $6.8 billion with a complete decimation of the Chicago loop. Some officials place the death toll as high as 5000 for unaccounted homeless. The tornado is noted to be the deadliest and costliest tornado to ever hit the United States and has one of the most gruesome clean up aftermaths ever seen.

Meteorological synopsis
The tornado initially touched down between 55th street and Plainfield road in Willowbrook at 7:24 pm as an immediately strong EF2 drill bit type tornado, ripping the rooftops from several homes in the east side of the village. Within short order the tornado rapidly grew in width as it crossed the 294 doing EF2 destruction in a wide swath  Several cars were caught in the tornado along the interstate and were forced to maneuver to avoid a wreck. As the tornado crossed Wolf Road in La Grange Highlands it rapidly intensitfied into an EF4 completely destroying the central section of the suburb of La Grange. The tornado then followed Ogden Ave at EF4 intensity, killing nearly 43 people along the stretch between La Grange and IL Route 43, north Lyons, most people were in their vehicles.

The tornado then began to do EF5 strength damage as it crossed into Cicero with windspeeds estimated at 314 MPH just south of Ogden Ave. Extreme destruction was witnessed as every home in south Cicero was flattened in less than 10 minutes. An estimated 500-800 people were killed in Cicero. The entire city faced extreme damage, but the worse was noted south of Ogden. The tornado continued NE and began to do extreme damage in North Lawndale where ground scouring occured. Every home and business in North Lawndale were stripped off of their foundations. Extreme wind Rowning of debris was seen here with nearly 40 foot high piles of broken timbers, instulation, and metal along Ogden Ave. An estimated 1300 people were killed in North Lawndale, with countless injured. Most bodies found in this location were pieces of remains.

St. Anthony Hospital, similar to Joplin missouri's Mercy, was shifted off of it's foundation in this location as well with complete destruction of the exterior walls. EF3 damage was noted in the Illinois Medical District with an estimated 300 people killed as they were caught in a wind tunnel effect between the buildings, most killed by flying glass. A similar effect was seen later in the tornado's history.

EF5 damage began again, starting at the intersections of Ashland and West Roosevelt and continued through the tornadoes lifespan until it crossed onto Lake Michigan.

The tornado entered University of Illinois Chicago with windspeads close to 315 MPH, some of the strongest winds recorded on earth. Most of the university students managed to make it to safety with proper warning of what was headed towards downtown, but the deathtoll was still significant. An esitmated 280 cars were blown out of the interchange of the Eisenhower and kennedy Expressways. Many of the people were on their way to the  2020 NBA Allstar game at the United Center. Greektown was completely flattened with extreme wind rowing there. An estimated additional 500-900 people died in this area. Cars and even a tractor-trailer from the expressways were found lodged in the side of the skyscrapers along the Chicago River. Some more than 30 stories up.

Downtown Chicago witnessed the most extreme and scientifically unique tornado damage known to man. The entire south loop from the river to the lake became a sea of flying glass moving at 300MPH. Thousands of people attempted to hide inside the skyscrapers, but few made it into the internal walls. An esimated 2000 or more people were shredded to bits as the exterior walls of the highrise buildings blew through the windtunnel in the narrow streets. Many bodies were never found. A large percentage of the bodies were found in the lobbies of many of the buildings as they attempted to escape. Most of the downtown buildings were completely stripped of their exterior walls, and the Trump International hotel collapsed in the River.

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