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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 ...
The city’s Office of Emergency Management and Communications issued a severe storm warning at about 7:15 p.m., which was expected to last until 9 p.m., while the National Weather Service ...
As the powerful storms approached Chicago, tornado warnings were issued for the areas in and around the city, encompassing an area that over 2.5 million people call home.
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 National Weather Service in Chicago issued 16 tornado warnings on Monday around the region, the most in a single day in 20 years. This included Cook and DuPage counties, where O'Hare and ...
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 ...
The 1990 Plainfield tornado was a devastating tornado that occurred on the afternoon of Tuesday, August 28, 1990. The violent tornado killed 29 people and injured 353. [1] It is the only F5/EF5 rated tornado ever officially recorded in August in the United States (unofficially the 1883 Rochester, Minnesota cyclone is considered an F5), and the only F5 tornado to strike the Chicago area.
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.