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The Chicago blizzard of 1967 struck northeast Illinois and northwest Indiana on January 26–27, 1967, with a record-setting 23 inches (58 cm) snow fall in Chicago and its suburbs before the storm abated the next morning. As of 2025, it remains the greatest snowfall in one storm in Chicago history.
As the storms swept the Chicago area late Monday, employees at a suburban weather service office had to pass coverage duties to a Michigan post for five minutes. The agency reported wind speeds in ...
The Chicago NWS office stated that the storm had an exceptionally high peak cloud height. Neighboring NWS radar sites detected a peak height of above 60,000 ft (11 mi; 18 km) and potentially as high as 65,000–70,000 ft (12.3–13.3 mi; 20–21 km), well above the normal height for convective thunderstorms in the mid-latitudes. [ 1 ]
In all, a record of 32 tornadoes were confirmed in the county warning area of National Weather Service Chicago, a record previously held by the July 2014 derecho sequence and the Tornado outbreak of March 31 – April 1, 2023. [15] One fatality was confirmed in Cedar Lake, Indiana. [1]
Wind gusts up to 75 mph were recorded across the North Central states on Friday and Friday night. The highest gust was recorded in Long Lake, South Dakota, with Lake City, So Hail and damaging ...
The Chicago metro area also will be within the swath of accumulating snow with a general 1-3 inches of snow likely to fall during Thursday night and into early Friday, possibly leading to ...
The storm killed at least 5 people directly, as well as 2 people indirectly through wildfires partly spawned by the storm, and caused at least $1.8 billion (2021 USD) in damages. [4] The number of tornadoes in this event broke a record for largest outbreak in the month of December that had been set less than a week prior. The event also became ...
In Chicago alone, temperatures have been almost 8 degrees Fahrenheit above the historical average. However, a quick change h Storm dumps snow in Midwest, including Chicago and Indianapolis