Severe weather, tornadoes cause damage across upper Midwest

WASHINGTON, June 23 (UPI) -- Severe storms, including intense straight-line winds and two tornadoes, ripped through the upper Midwest, causing at least one building collapse and widespread damage.

Several people were injured when storms ripped through parts of Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin and Michigan on Monday, leaving a path of destruction. Meteorologists said a derecho, a weather phenomenon that brings strong, sustained winds, stretched from South Dakota to Wisconsin, leaving damage in a 240-mile swath that spread to northern Iowa. Later in the day, a second round of storms swept through Missouri, Iowa, Illinois and Michigan with reports of tornadoes. In Chicago, some 500 flights were canceled.

Significant damage in Garretson. MCSO, HP, EM and multiple fire departments on scene. Please stay away until safe. pic.twitter.com/mtIiYp7R55

— Minnehaha Sheriff (@MinnehahaCounty) June 22, 2015

The Weather Channel reported possible tornadoes touched down in parts of northwest Illinois. Five people who were trapped inside an overturned trailer sustained minor injuries. In Iowa, a suspected tornado ripped through Monroe County, damaging a Hy-Vee grocery store and several other buildings.

Wind gusts as high as 122 mph, as strong as a category 3 hurricane, swept through Haynes, S.D., leaving one person injured.

Storms are expected to move across the country from Maine to the Carolinas and west to the Tennessee and Kentucky area Tuesday.

My friend just sent this to me from Portland, MI and says tornado.. I was looking over radar.. @NWSGrandRapids pic.twitter.com/Wj0EnXHPwq

— Ethan Mulnix (@Tornadochaser91) June 22, 2015