Rare November tornadoes cause damage in Wis., Ill.

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Cleanup from a rare November tornado begins Tuesday in southeastern Wisconsin.

A confirmed tornado touched down in Walworth County, where four homes and four farm buildings were damaged. The National Weather Service says the tornado was an EF-1 and traveled about four miles.

An apparent twister also moved through Union Grove in Racine County, where semis were blown over and debris was spread over parts of Interstate 94. The weather service planned to send a crew to Racine County Tuesday to confirm whether the storm was a tornado.

Utility outages were widespread late Monday afternoon, with some 42,200 customers without power from northern Winnebago County east to Belvidere, ComEd spokesman Paul Callighan said. The utility said the storms hit 10 transmission towers in Boone County.

The fast-moving storm system also produced two apparent tornado touchdowns in southeastern Wisconsin.

By Monday night, the storm front had moved eastward into Indiana and Michigan, but much of northeastern Illinois remained under flash flood watches and warnings from the heavy rain that accompanied the storms.