Overview
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Two rounds of showers and thunderstorms brought severe weather to parts of northern Illinois on Thursday. The first wave was associated with a cluster of thunderstorms known as a Mesoscale Convective System which moved southward out of Wisconsin during the early-morning hours and continued to track towards the southeast through Thursday morning and into the afternoon. This system brought a swath of isolated wind damage and occasional quarter-sized hail to the region. After a brief lull, additional thunderstorms erupted during the evening hours and tracked generally along I-88 dropping large hail along the I-88 corridor. Hail ranged from the size of quarters to slightly larger than 2" in diameter. |
 Radar-estimated hail swaths with several ground reports overlaid. |
SPC Mesoanalysis and Radar Animation
Storm Reports
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| Storm Reports |
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHICAGO IL
103 AM CDT FRI MAY 17 2019
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
1240 AM HAIL GLEN ELLYN 41.88N 88.07W
05/17/2019 M1.00 INCH DUPAGE IL TRAINED SPOTTER
1235 AM HAIL GLEN ELLYN 41.88N 88.07W
05/17/2019 M1.00 INCH DUPAGE IL PUBLIC
1234 AM HAIL WHEATON 41.86N 88.11W
05/17/2019 M1.25 INCH DUPAGE IL PUBLIC
1230 AM HAIL 1 SE WINFIELD 41.86N 88.14W
05/17/2019 M1.50 INCH DUPAGE IL TRAINED SPOTTER
1225 AM HAIL 1 NW NORTH AURORA 41.82N 88.34W
05/17/2019 E1.00 INCH KANE IL PUBLIC
1222 AM HAIL 1 ESE BATAVIA 41.84N 88.29W
05/17/2019 M1.25 INCH KANE IL TRAINED SPOTTER
1210 AM HAIL 3 ESE KANEVILLE 41.82N 88.47W
05/17/2019 E1.50 INCH KANE IL PUBLIC
1202 AM HAIL 2 SE KANEVILLE 41.82N 88.49W
05/17/2019 M2.50 INCH KANE IL TRAINED SPOTTER
MEASURED 2.25 INCH DIAMETER HAIL, LOTS OF
GOLF BALL SIZED HAIL.
1154 PM HAIL 2 N VALPARAISO 41.50N 87.06W
05/16/2019 M1.50 INCH PORTER IN PUBLIC
1144 PM HAIL SOUTH HAVEN 41.55N 87.13W
05/16/2019 E1.00 INCH PORTER IN TRAINED SPOTTER
1141 PM HAIL 1 SE SOUTH HAVEN 41.54N 87.13W
05/16/2019 E1.00 INCH PORTER IN PUBLIC
1114 PM HAIL 4 SW STEWARD 41.81N 89.08W
05/16/2019 E1.75 INCH LEE IL TRAINED SPOTTER
GOLF BALL SIZE ON ROUTE 251, 3 MILES NORTH
OF ROUTE 30.
1032 PM HAIL CHICAGO RIDGE 41.70N 87.78W
05/16/2019 M0.75 INCH COOK IL TRAINED SPOTTER
1019 PM HAIL PLANO 41.66N 88.54W
05/16/2019 M0.75 INCH KENDALL IL TRAINED SPOTTER
1011 PM HAIL 2 N OSWEGO 41.70N 88.36W
05/16/2019 E0.25 INCH KENDALL IL PUBLIC
1005 PM HAIL 3 NW OSWEGO 41.71N 88.40W
05/16/2019 E1.75 INCH KENDALL IL PUBLIC
0957 PM HAIL 3 SE BIG ROCK 41.74N 88.51W
05/16/2019 E1.75 INCH KANE IL TRAINED SPOTTER
0950 PM HAIL WATERMAN 41.78N 88.77W
05/16/2019 E1.75 INCH DE KALB IL PUBLIC
TIME ESTIMATED BY RADAR.
0948 PM HAIL 1 S STEWARD 41.83N 89.02W
05/16/2019 M1.00 INCH LEE IL TRAINED SPOTTER
0929 PM HAIL 1 SSE ASHTON 41.86N 89.22W
05/16/2019 M1.75 INCH LEE IL PUBLIC
I-88 NEAR ASHTON.
0923 PM HAIL FRANKLIN GROVE 41.84N 89.30W
05/16/2019 M1.50 INCH LEE IL PUBLIC
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Rain Reports
Public Information Statement National Weather Service Chicago IL 1029 AM CDT Fri May 17 2019 ...Morning Rainfall Roundup... The following are rain amounts greater than one inch for the previous 24-hours as measured in the morning by NWS Cooperative Observers and CoCoRaHS observers. Observations are usually taken between 6 AND 8 AM. 24-hour rainfall amounts ending Friday(05/17/19)... Illinois Rain Location (County): fall (inches) Sterling 4NE (Lee)...........................2.00 Marseilles Lock & Dam (La Salle).............1.52 Plano (Kendall)..............................1.45 Oswego 5SSE (Kendall)........................1.36 Dwight (Livingston)..........................1.31 Plainfield 3NNW (Will).......................1.31 Plainfield 2SSE (Will).......................1.29 Plainfield (Will)............................1.27 Flossmoor 1ESE (Cook)........................1.26 Lansing (Cook)...............................1.24 Montgomery 1SSE (Kendall)....................1.23 Steward (Lee)................................1.21 Dwight 4NNW (Grundy).........................1.19 Flossmoor (Cook).............................1.18 Lockport 1SE (Will)..........................1.18 Park Forest (Cook)...........................1.16 Lansing (Cook)...............................1.09 Ashkum 5.6E (Iroquois).......................1.05 Romeoville (Will)............................1.05 Batavia 1WSW (Kane)..........................1.04 Aurora (Kane)................................1.02 Mokena 1W (Will).............................1.01 Mazon 0.5ENE (Grundy)........................1.00 Indiana Rain Location (County): fall (inches) Schererville 1E (Lake).......................1.91 Schererville 1E (Lake).......................1.35 Winfield 1NE (Lake)..........................1.26 Crown Point (Lake)...........................1.21 Crown Point 1N (Lake)........................1.21 Hebron 4NE (Porter)..........................1.06 Griffith 1N (Lake)...........................1.02 $$
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