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Not really. The couple of days in late June it was thick enough for me to smell on the ground here it smelled like burnt plastic, not like a campfire at all.

Here's another frame grab from about 30 seconds later, at Silver Glen Rd. & Denker Rd. The closer/southern twin had appeared to lift (at least in terms of the condensation funnel) but those cloud tendrils were still spinning wildly. Meanwhile it's probably my best glimpse of the Plato Center-Elgin EF1 toward the left. Two concurrent cyclonic tornadoes from distinct mesocyclones in such close proximity, one of those things that seems to defy the laws of physics (except, Pilger happened). That's the amount of low-level shear that was present over the Chicago metro on Wednesday.

Literally slept through the southern Wisconsin tornado warning...we weren't even in a marginal risk until the 01Z outlook.

Near-constant thunder in Madison now. Between yesterday and today, Goosebumps Girl's prayers are being answered after the last 90 days of absolute dog shit.

Cow!

It's interesting; if I'm not mistaken 1994 was considered a possible analog to this year; it likewise featured a very slow "traditional" severe weather season of May through mid-June in the Plains, followed by an anomalous "post-season" uptick in activity that continued well into the summer. Meanwhile the Midwest has brought two of the best regional tornado chases of my life in 3/31 and 7/12, but with scarcely a rumble of thunder (or drop of rain) in between.

"Full" video, such as it is (all 60 glorious seconds of tornadic bliss) is up:

Is there even any point to SPC doing convective outlooks beyond Day 1 in July/August?

Great shot, Matt! Jealous. That was a weirdly structured storm. One of the reasons my view wasn't so good was because I kept trying to hug the southern flank where it would periodically look like a hook was trying to form. However the couplet was way off to the north, I assumed it would be buried in rain but it wasn't.

Yep, glimpsed that one but was a little too far away, too many trees lining the roads. If I wanted that I'd chase in Wisconsin! Actual grab instead of phone photo of my camcorder screen. Unfortunately only got a few seconds of usable video. It was also hard to keep up with the storm, despite the warning text saying it was moving at 35 MPH and I was mostly able to keep to main roads at 45-50 MPH and had pretty good luck with the traffic lights, I never seemed to gain any distance on them. Gave up at Bartlett Metra Station. I think the train video I took there is longer than my tornado video will end up being. This is from Silver Glen Rd. just east of Corron Rd., north of Campton Hills.

This was fun. Of course it waited until it was in the trees and then the burbs to produce, but this is why I stuck with it. Sent from my Pixel 4a using Tapatalk

Looks like a cell has fired just WNW of here. Wasn't a lot of time for sunshine, though. Maybe @Chicago Storm was right. Gonna give it some time, though as impatience has burned me in the past (most notably 4/9/15). Sent from my Pixel 4a using Tapatalk

Sun coming out in Davis Jct. Warm front must be here. Sent from my Pixel 4a using Tapatalk

Gonna sit tight in Davis Jct., IL for a little while. Sent from my Pixel 4a using Tapatalk

Found the NOAA one. https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/goes/sector.php?sat=G16&sector=umv

Tropical Tidbits has a CONUS visible loop. I can't zoom in on the Midwest region but you can see some clearing nosing into NW IL. https://www.tropicaltidbits.com/sat/satlooper.php?region=us&product=vis_swir

COD visible loop is stuck at 15:16Z (10:16 AM CDT) for some reason, anyone have another good source for satellite? ...at first I thought that recovery wasn't gonna happen.

This is what I meant with my (partially) tounge-in-cheek observation; that predictability of severe weather in the summer is such that even as recently as the overnight hours, today was looking like a wash for severe potential north of I-80 in IL. The flip side of this of course, is that it makes it near impossible to plan chases/take PTO in advance. For me, it's local enough that I can head out with my 3A-noon shift.

Hmmm...

That front part of the main echo northwest of the Quad Cities almost looks like a huge supercell with debris ball...almost.

Looks like some stuff is pushing into at least southwest WI after all...we'll see how well it holds together.

Enhanced risk upgrade for wind with the Iowa MCS, looks like a miss south again for I-80 and north.

Models yesterday showing rain/storms over southern WI this morning were completely wrong. The sun's out.

At least it looks good for rain and thunder tomorrow morning. If this MCS were better-timed we'd have greater severe chances, but we'll take what we can get at this point. Pinning my hopes on the general level of predictability for severe weather in the summer...

Pretty weak north of wherever the second MCS on Wednesday tracks, which as @hawkeye_wx alluded to in another thread, will probably be further south than most of us would like. Sadly, just the fact that there's a pretty good chance for thunder is better than we've done for most of this year. Edit: NAM now has even the first MCS going south of the state line Wednesday morning.