Opdyke News

Opdyke, IL - It was a close call. A charter bus packed with a children's choir group narrowly escaped last month's tornado in Opdyke, Illinois.

If you live in Illinois, this statistic may not surprise you: According to The Weather Channel , an analysis of tornadoes between the years 1991 and 2010 ranked Illinois as fourth in the number of tornadoes per 10,000 square miles.

Jefferson County coroner Eddie Joe Marks said Pat Brown, 60, died Friday from injuries she sustained when her house collapsed during the storms that raged through southern Illinois that afternoon.

Property owners in southern Illinois are cleaning up after Friday's severe storms.

Two other people were injured. This happened after severe weather rolled through the area.