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After striking the Amazon warehouse Friday night, the storm made a path of destruction heading northeast and felling trees, destroying buildings and dropping hundreds of pieces of metal and insulation in to the neighborhood off Country Club Drive. Resident Dave Chomhiran gets ready to start cutting up the tree that fell on the house of his parents in the first block of Glen Echo Drive. 

Debris found by Rick Brewer in the Esic Drive neighborhood in Edwardsville on Saturday morning. Brewer said the neighborhood was covered in different foam material assumed to be from the Amazon facility.

A piece of plexiglass found in Hillsboro, IL on Saturday morning. Hillsboro, which is over 30 miles from Edwardsville, saw Amazon debris scattered throughout the town and surrounding areas.

A sign labeled "Tom desk" found in Fillmore, IL on Saturday morning. The sign could potentially be from the Amazon facility as a locator to someone's desk within the building. Fillmore and other surrounding areas, such as Hillsboro, saw debris from the tornado that hit the Amazon warehouse Friday night in Edwardsville. 

EDWARDSVILLE – A 300-yard-wide tornado brought strong winds to Edwardsville Friday night, felling trees, destroying buildings and dropping a substantial amount of sheet metal and foam insulation in neighborhoods across the region, though not all residents were impacted. 

The National Weather Service rated the tornado that touched down in Edwardsville Friday an EF-3 level, with winds ranging from 136 to 165 mph.

Residents on Glen Echo Drive and Camelot Drive, which are streets nearby the Amazon fulfillment center located on Gateway Commerce Center Drive East in Edwardsville, saw debris as well as other destruction such as downed power lines, smashed mailboxes and at least one damaged pickup truck. 

Nearby on University Drive, several outbuildings were completely destroyed.

On Esic Drive, some residents had a slightly different experience.

“We didn’t have any damage in our neighborhood,” Edwardsville resident Rick Brewer said. “I just heard the one piece (of foam material) hit the side of our house, but it’s so soft that it didn’t do anything.”

Though approximately 11,000 Ameren Illinois customers in Madison County were without power Friday, Brewer said his home's lights remained on. On Saturday, 700 customers were without power and as of Sunday, officials said the city's power was fully restored. 

That same foam material that Brewer found on Esic Drive was also found roughly 40 miles away in Hillsboro and surrounding areas.

“Around 9:30 p.m., we started to see people posting the pictures of the foam and wondering what it was,” Hillsboro resident Tiffany Fenton Reitz said. “It almost became a scavenger hunt to see how many pieces people could find.” 

Fenton added that the foam could be found in nearby Fillmore, Irving and Witt.

Along with the foam, Fenton and residents found pieces of plexiglass and even a piece of debris labeled “TOM desk," which some assumed could be from the Amazon warehouse. 

“We definitely got a lot of storms,” Fenton said. “Our sirens went off three times.

"We just had really, really strong winds and some really bad storms. The wind was coming from the southeast, which was directly from the Edwardsville area.” 

The Edwardsville Police Department has asked that if anyone wants to make donations of any sort to contact the Salvation Army or Red Cross.

Officials ask for people with families that may have been involved to contact the Edwardsville Police Department at 618-656-2131.

Photojournalist John Badman and Sports Editor Matt Kamp contributed to this story.