Kellogg Avenue resident Alan Iverson’s backyard shed was destroyed by falling trees as a confirmed EF-2 tornado swept through Janesville’s southside Saturday, June 22.
Kellogg Avenue resident Alan Iverson’s backyard shed was destroyed by falling trees as a confirmed EF-2 tornado swept through Janesville’s southside Saturday, June 22.
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JANESVILLE — The damaged caused by a confirmed EF-2 tornado along Kellogg Avenue and surrounding streets Saturday night, became clear Sunday morning.
One home at Edison Avenue and Hermitage Lane had its roof completely torn off, while others had siding torn off and trees fell on them. Multiple apartment complexes along Kellogg Avenue had siding torn off. Trees fells onto vehicles.
Howard Upergui was at work at the time of the storm. He came home to trees down.
“My big tree fell in the street,” Upergui said, and a pine tree fell in his backyard.
Upergui was without power Sunday. He’d been told it would come back on sometime Monday.
Volunteers Kevin Smith and Molly Coggins load a truck full of debris on Adel Street in Janesville Sunday, June 23.
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Alan Iverson said until Saturday, his neighbors had a “park-like” grove of trees in their backyard.
The tornado, that the National Weather Service said was an EF-2 with estimated wind speeds of 115 miles per hour, was on the ground for 11 minutes Saturday, from 7:42-7:53 p.m. It tracked from east/southeast of Footville into the city of Janesville.
It dropped those trees in his backyard.
Beginning at 6:30 a.m. Sunday, Iverson and others helping him worked to clear eight downed trees from his backyard.
The sound of chainsaws continued “all throughout the day,” Iverson said.
Iverson’s shed was destroyed and there was minor wind damage on the west side of his house, but none of the trees touched his house.
“The wind could have been more of a northeastern direction, it could have all come up on us,” Iverson said.
“It was pretty crazy. I’ve never been in a tornado before. I’ve got pretty sensitive ears. The pressure was pretty crazy,” he reflected.
Iverson has a tree in his front yard that also lost limbs that will have to come down, he said.
