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On July 15, the Chicago area saw a perfect storm of its own, but this time on land, with a record-setting number of tornadoes touching down in a single day. In a Fox 32 special report, Chief ...
Part of the Weather of 2024. Starting on the evening of July 13 and extending through July 16, 2024, an intense sequence of severe weather outbreaks affected much of the Midwestern and Northeastern United States. This included two significant derechoes that each had wind gusts exceeding 100 mph (160 km/h), as well as multiple tornado outbreaks ...
Emily DeLetter, USA TODAY. July 16, 2024 at 8:57 AM. ... The National Weather Service in Chicago issued 16 tornado warnings on Monday around the region, the most in a single day in 20 years. This ...
Between 1855 and 2021, the weather service recorded 97 significant tornadoes in the Chicago metro area. The deadliest formed in Palos Hills in Cook County on April 21, 1967.
Since its initial usage in May 1999, the National Weather Service (NWS) in the United States has used the tornado emergency bulletin, an unofficial, high-end classification of tornado warning—sent through either the issuance of a warning or via a "severe weather statement" that provides updated information on an ongoing warning—that is issued when a violent tornado (confirmed by radar or ...
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. Modern weather surveillance technology such as Doppler weather radar can detect rotation in a ...
The weather service also issued a tornado warning for much of north Cook County through 8:30 p.m. Tuesday. A tornado watch means weather conditions make tornado formation likely. A tornado warning ...
The tornado first touched down at 11:02 p.m. in the Springbrook Prairie Forest Preserve, and the first warning for the tornado was issued at 11:05 p.m. for radar-indicated rotation. This warning included Naperville and Woodridge, as well as areas of Chicago such as the Chicago Lawn and Midway International Airport areas.