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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.
The National Weather Service has issued a Winter Storm Warning across much of central Indiana. (9:03 a.m. ET) More than 100 Flights Canceled At St. Louis Airport
On this page, you'll find maps below that will help to track the storm. Check back throughout the storm, as these maps will update frequently with the latest information. (MORE: Full Winter Storm ...
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 ]
A Local Storm Report (LSR) is transmitted by the National Weather Service (NWS) when it receives significant information from storm spotters, such as amateur radio operators, storm chasers, law enforcement officials, civil defense (now emergency management) personnel, firefighters, EMTs or public citizens, about severe weather conditions in their warning responsibility area (County Warning ...
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 .
More than 3 million people in Florida were under tornado watches issued by the Storm Prediction Center as of Tuesday night. LIVE UPDATES: The latest on the deadly winter storm
The storms also caused flooding on streets and major expressways such as the Bishop Ford Freeway. Rainfall totals in Boone and LaSalle Counties topped 1987 records. [17] Governor Rod Blagojevich declared McHenry, Lake, Cook (including Chicago), DuPage, and Kane counties to be disaster areas after the storm. Flooding across northern Illinois was ...