For what it's worth - I was just west of Tuscola at the time of the tornado report at Atwood. I never saw anything that looked all that threatening. There was a mushy shelf cloud along the leading edge of the precip - with a somewhat lowered base on an inflow band feeding in from the southeast, but if there was a tornado it apparently eluded my attention - or the timing of the report is off. The cell did produce some incredible forked lightning, as well as a few ~ 1 inch hailstones among a smothering assault of pea sized hail in white-out conditions, with winds perhaps approaching 60 mph briefly. No complaints for mid-February in IL, but now we are back to our regularly scheduled programming here.
Glen
