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Looks like the final tally will be NINE tornadoes just outside Chicago a couple days ago, including one right near my home. I had a feeling it might not have been just straight line winds as it was almost like a popping sound over the house. The EF3 in Coal City was a high end, nearly an EF4 strength.
During the evening of June 22, tornadoes and heavy rain impacted several counties (Lee, LaSalle, Grundy, Will, Kankakee, and Iroquois) in Northern Illinois.
NWS preliminary surveys have confirmed 9 tornadoes from the June 22nd event. Investigation and possible assessments will continue and the number of confirmed tornadoes will likely increase. It may take 2-3 days to complete tornado documentation.
The heaviest damage was in Coal City (Grundy County) and Braidwood (Will County) which was caused by an EF-3 tornado, and the Woodhaven Campground in Sublette (Lee County) caused by an EF-2 tornado. The high end EF-3 damage with maximum estimated wind speeds up to 160 mph in Coal City made the Coal City-Braidwood tornado the strongest tornado in the Chicago metro area since the August 28, 1990 Plainfield F-5 tornado.
Tornadoes were spawned by a one long tracked, cyclic supercell thunderstorm (a supercell thunderstorm which produces a series of tornadoes over a period of time).
The atmosphere was primed for severe weather, with very warm, humid conditions, low pressure moving north of the region, and a strong jet stream aloft.
In addition to tornado and wind damage, slow moving storms brought torrential rainfall of locally up to 3 to 5 inches to portions of Lee, Grundy, Will, and Kankakee counties, resulting in widespread flash flooding. This rain fell on top of soil already saturated from repeated heavy rains over the past few weeks.
The severe thunderstorms which produced torrential rain, wind damage, and tornadoes Monday evening developed quickly following a line of intense thunderstorms that moved into northwest Illinois around 9 AM CDT Monday morning. This line initially produced wind gusts in excess of 70 mph across portions of eastern Iowa, but quickly weakened as it moved into northern Illinois.
Looks like the final tally will be NINE tornadoes just outside Chicago a couple days ago, including one right near my home. I had a feeling it might not have been just straight line winds as it was almost like a popping sound over the house. The EF3 in Coal City was a high end, nearly an EF4 strength.
Yikes man.. Yeah, that wasn't fun even just following on radar. It's gut wrenching even from hundreds of miles away.
That Jet axis needs to shove off the coast. Ugh. I got chances of rain next 5 days. Today might be last full sunny day until Monday. And we haven't had many this month.
But no way I'm complaining about that. Just wish I was "inside" the trough more.
Yikes man.. Yeah, that wasn't fun even just following on radar. It's gut wrenching even from hundreds of miles away.
That Jet axis needs to shove off the coast. Ugh. I got chances of rain next 5 days. Today might be last full sunny day until Monday. And we haven't had many this month.
But no way I'm complaining about that. Just wish I was "inside" the trough more.
It's been absolutely brutal, I don't even remember what the 80s range even feels like... I have an uncle who lives on South Beach and a friend in Atlanta and they said last weekend was truly awful. Summer is wearing very thin at this point. I went to the mountains to escape last weekend(8,500ft range) and it was still 90ºF!!!!!! At least it isn't humid and extremely hot like parts of the Southeast, not really making me feel better when I say that.
That Vegas heat though, the people walking around there.
Welp.
Last edited by MuffinMan16; 06-24-2015 at 10:09 PM..
No heat here... In fact below average temps though the first week of July which hopefully by then we will break out of this horrific pattern. June will end up one of the cloudiest on record, also very wet, and of course with below average temps
Below normal to gulf coast. 16 below normal for parts of New England.
20+ above normal for parts of NorthWest.
Last time I was 14+ above normal with max was beginning of May so I'm happy to see this heat surging in the Pac NW. This summer is nice to live through based on this areas capabilities..
Dew point at 49°F this morning.
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