COAL CITY – On the one-year anniversary of an EF3 tornado that damaged more than 800 properties in Coal City, village officials were forced Wednesday to cancel a commemorative ceremony due to severe weather.

The village intended to dedicate, at 7 p.m. Wednesday, a plaque on a large tree stump in Campbell Memorial Park. The stump is all that remains of one of about 50,000 trees that were damaged and is meant to highlight how much the landscape of the village has changed since the tornado.