Severe Thunderstorms and Heavy Rain in the Southern U.S.; Snow in the Northern Rockies and Northern Plains

A storm system will shift from eastern Texas into the lower Mississippi Valley today with additional threats of severe thunderstorms and heavy to excessive rainfall which may bring flooding. In the northern U.S., a storm will bring heavy snow and gusty winds over parts of the northern Rockies, northern Plains, and Upper Midwest today into Wednesday. Read More >

A Few Funnel Clouds Across the Western Chicago Metro Tuesday Evening, June 24, 2014


Glen Ellyn around 6 pm. Photo courtesy of Norm Ramil.	Oak Brook around 6:15. Photo courtesy of Annie Marie.

ORD Terminal Doppler Weather Radar 1.8° Loop from ~5:30 pm - 6:45 pm

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Note multiple elongated boundaries that intersect and storms that develop on these. The updrafts of these developing storms stretched pre-existing low-level "spin" and helped produce the funnel clouds.

ORD Terminal Doppler Weather Radar 1.8° Storm-Relative Motion indicating rotation near the cloud base level

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