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Heavy snow pushed into Great Lakes cities, including Chicago and Milwaukee, on Thursday during the season's first winter storm, disrupting travel before bringing more travel impacts across ...
The weather service's Chicago office said preliminary findings indicated that an EF-1 tornado struck an area of Chicago that included the western portions of the Loop on Monday night.
Winter Storm Brings Blizzard Conditions To Chicago, And Forces 1,900 Flight Cancellations Nationwide (Jim Vondruska / Getty Images)
The 23 inches (58.4 cm) inches of snow that fell on Chicago for 29 hours from the morning of January 26, 1967 is a record for a single storm. [ 1 ] [ 3 ] [ 8 ] [ 10 ] The 19.8 inches (50.3 cm) that fell on January 26–27 was the greatest amount of snow for a 24-hour period, later surpassed by Groundhog Day Blizzard of 2011 with 20.0 inches (50 ...
A tree uprooted by a weak tornado in Chicago on July 14. The Storm Prediction Center outlined a slight (2/5) risk convective outlook at 13Z, outflow from previous mesoscale convective systems had manifested as outflow boundaries over Iowa and Illinois, which were expected to be conducive to the formation of serial mesoscale convective systems that evening. [21]
The tornado caused an estimated $165 million (1990 USD) in damages, and is the only F5 or EF5 tornado on record to hit the Chicago metropolitan area. [105] June 2, 1990 – An F2 tornado tracked 8 miles through Shelby County, destroying 16 homes, damaging a further 60, and injuring 2 people.
The National Weather Service issued a tornado watch for parts of eastern and central Illinois until 8 p.m. Tuesday as severe storms redeveloped in the afternoon and were expected to continue ...
Strong storms moved through the Chicago area Wednesday night and Thursday morning, prompting a Tornado Watch and a Warning in some parts of the Chicago area.