Ohio-born WilliamTecumsehShermanwasnamed after Tecumseh, theShawnee chief who had tried to uniteOhioRiver ValleyNative American tribesin the early19thcentury.
Storms are expected to move east on Wednesday and will extend from the Great Lakes south-southwestward into the OhioRiverValley and into the Deep South.
The case gained national attention after The New York Times published a lengthy piece on it in December and the activist hacker group Anonymous posted a video of teenagers in the OhioRivervalley town cracking jokes about it.