Tornado watches and warnings have been issued across major parts of central and southern Illinois, as well as counties south of Chicago. Find out where.

A major tornado watch has been issued for four U.S. states on Wednesday evening. Strong tornadoes have hit in multiple U.S. states in recent days, including Illinois, Colorado and Nebraska. More could be coming on Wednesday night.

The National Weather Service on Wednesday afternoon issued tornado watches for northern Lake, Porter and LaPorte counties. The southern regions of those counties were under severe thunderstorm warnings as of 2:30 p.