MILWAUKI – A child and two adults were missing on Tuesday after being swept into a drainage ditch in Milwaukee a day earlier after heavy thunderstorms brought heavy rains and destructive winds across much of the Midwest and parts of the South, authorities said. .
Teams resumed their search on Tuesday morning for an 11-year-old boy, as well as two men, aged 34 and 37, who entered the water in an attempt to save the child on Monday night.
Firefighters focused their search on Tuesday on three connected tunnels carrying water to the Kininikik River. Search teams did not enter the tunnels Monday night due to dangerous conditions and instead sent a drone inside to try to find the three, officials said. The names of the missing were not released immediately. Police said all three knew each other, but gave no further details.
The water was deep and fast after severe storms that also damaged Illinois, Indiana, Michigan and Ohio. And storms continued to strike as they entered West Virginia early Tuesday, where many roads were closed by downed trees and power lines.
According to the website PowerOutage.us, which tracks outages across the country, about 500,000 electricity customers in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio and West Virginia were without service on Tuesday morning.
The storms came as high temperatures and humidity settled in states stretching across parts of the Persian Gulf coast to the Great Lakes and east to the Carolinas. More than 100 million people faced a combination of heat recommendations, overheat warnings and overheat warnings by Wednesday after record weekend temperatures in parts of the West and Southwest.
In Illinois, a thunderstorm with winds of more than 80 miles per hour (129 km / h) knocked down trees and damaged power lines on Monday night, leaving a trail of damage in the Chicago area and northwest Indiana, the National Weather Service said.
A number of reports of wind damage from the storm have been reported, with O’Hare International Airport in Chicago registering a gust of wind at 84 miles per hour (135 km / h), the meteorological service said. Crews planned to assess the damage from Tuesday’s storm to determine if a tornado had landed.
In Belwood, in the western suburbs of Chicago, village officials said winds blew off the roof of an apartment building, injuring a young woman who was hospitalized after being hit by falling debris but is expected to recover.
“We just heard people shouting that the roof has been taken down, get out, get out,” Larhonda Neal told WLS-TV.
In northwestern Indiana, the Meteorological Service said it was damaged by a storm in Ogden Dunes and said a 1.5-inch (3.8-centimeter) hailstorm had hit Lake New York County on Monday night.
In Northeast Indiana, the Meteorological Service said a 98-mph wind gust was recorded at Fort Wayne International Airport, the strongest wind the airport has ever recorded, overshadowing a previous record of a 91-mph gust recorded on June 30, 2012. Extensive damage from the storm and downed trees were reported in Fort Wayne, where winds tore siding and insulation from the hangar of SkyWest, an aircraft maintenance company southwest of the terminal and runways at Fort Wayne Airport, revealing planes inside, WANE-TV reported.
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