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Parts of Chicago were under a severe thunderstorm warning Wednesday morning as a storm system moved east through northern Illinois, according to weather officials. Northwestern Cook County was ...
Chicago weather: Cleanup from storm damage begins as temperatures move into low 40s As thunder and lightning flashed throughout the evening over the city and suburbs, hail blanketed some city ...
An example of a tornado warning polygon issued by the National Weather Service. A tornado warning (SAME code: TOR) is a public warning that is issued by weather forecasting agencies to an area in the direct path of a tornado, or a severe thunderstorm capable of producing one, and advises individuals in that area to take cover.
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In Canada, a severe thunderstorm is defined as having wind gusts of greater than 90 km/h (56 mph), hail with a diameter of greater than two centimetres (0.79 in), rainfall rates of greater than 50 millimetres (2.0 in) in one hour or greater than 75 millimetres (3.0 in) in three hours, or tornadoes. [14]
Ivan Brunk, meteorologist in charge of the Chicago U.S. Weather Bureau (now National Weather Service) office at that time, suggested that the radio service be reinstated and put to Marine usage on an experimental basis. The marine weather broadcast was an immediate success, and the service became permanent two years later.
WSNS-TV (channel 44) is a television station in Chicago, Illinois, United States, serving as the local outlet for the Spanish-language network Telemundo.It is owned and operated by NBCUniversal's Telemundo Station Group alongside NBC outlet WMAQ-TV (channel 5).
The zone from Texas to Arkansas has been hit repeatedly by powerful thunderstorms that spawned large hail, high winds and tornadoes already this week. Th Severe weather to keep pounding parts of ...