CHICAGO, May 29 (UPI) -- Storms that brought tornadoes to the Midwest left more than 8,000 homes in the Chicago area without power, officials said Wednesday.
The power outages were a result of overnight thunderstorms that brought heavy rains and flash floods to Illinois after spawning tornadoes in Kansas, the Chicago Tribune reported.
Some 8,475 homes in the Chicago area were without power in the pre-dawn hours, including nearly 4,000 in the southern suburbs, said Krissy Posey, a spokeswoman with ComEd.
Heavy rains sporadically flooded underpasses on highways. Midway Airport received nearly 2 inches of rain within a 90-minute period, said Mike Barbou, a National Weather Service meteorologist.
The same storm system brought at least four tornadoes to Genesee County, Mich., Tuesday night, MLive.com reported.
No injuries were reported, but damage reports were received from several areas throughout the night.
NWS officials said they could not confirm whether any tornadoes had touched down in the county, but police in the community of Goodrich said one twister hit there, demolishing a home. A woman and two children who took refuge in the house's basement were unharmed.
Earlier Tuesday, the storm system passed through Kansas, where one of several tornadoes damaged homes and power lines in a rural area in the north-central part of the state, emergency officials said.
Nemaha County emergency manager Todd Swart said the tornado struck six farms in and around Corning, destroying one, CNN reported.
The storms dumped heavy rain across the region, especially on Kansas, Missouri, South Dakota, Illinois and Indiana, where flood warnings were issued, the NWS said.
