Dangerous, prolonged heat is expected across portions of the Central and Southeast U.S. through July. Scattered severe thunderstorms are expected over parts of the northern Plains into the upper Mississippi Valley today, with damaging winds and large hail as the primary threats. Heavy rainfall could lead to areas of flooding across the northern Plains, Upper Midwest, Southeast and Southwest. Read More >
Thursday, November 15 saw early morning snow from a major weather system to our south spread northwest over northwest Indiana and northern Illinois. The solid snow shield brought 2" to 4" of accumulation in parts of east central Illinois into northwest Indiana by mid-morning. Then a single band of snow continued to move northwest across the Chicago metro area, pivoting, and then weakened as it moved back southeast (though did briefly re-intensify). This band produced mainly 1-2", although there was isolated 2" in Lake County, IL. |
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Observed snowfall map from 11/15/18. Also visit the Storm Reports map. |
Text Listing of Snowfall Reports from Volunteer Observers
Storm Reports
Map of Snowfall Local Storm Reports
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NWUS53 KLOT 202213
LSRLOT
Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service Chicago IL
513 PM CDT Sun Jul 20 2025
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0335 PM Funnel Cloud 1 S Cullom 40.86N 88.27W
07/20/2025 Livingston IL Broadcast Media
Photo shared of a funnel roughly 2/3rds of
the way to the ground. Location approximate.
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