CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- A tornado touched down Monday in Dyer, near the Illinois-Indiana border, the National Weather Service confirms.
WBBM Newsradio's Mike Krauser spoke to Dyer resident Dean Riccardi.
A 25-foot tree that was near the sidewalk in Riccardi's front yard was snapped off at the ground, flipped upside-down, coming to rest on his neighbor's roof.
WBBM: This was your tree, this is pretty wild.
"That was, that was my tree. Now there's my tree."
WBBM: So this tree was obviously broken off at the roots. What happened?
"I was not here when it happened. When we returned home we saw the tree on the roof of the house next to us."
WBBM: That's pretty amazing that it did not do any more damage than it did.
Sharon O’Donnell was in her home near Hart and Chateau… when she got the warning on her phone.
'We just immediately went downstairs. I have a handicapped sister so we wanted to get going really fast, plus five dogs to try and get down there...my husband was upstairs and he just started screaming to stay downstairs because he started to feel the house shake and the rumble - heard the train sound, the famous train sound everybody talks about," she said.
The tornado was on the ground for a very short time in Dyer.