Chicago Storm Posted August 21, 2022 Share Posted August 21, 2022 I’m out camping this weekend at Johnson Sauk Trail State Park, just north of Kewanee IL. There were repeated rounds of rain/t’storms Fri night and through the day on Saturday. Unfortunately I wasn’t able to do any real chasing on Saturday, but did manage to see a very brief funnel cloud about 10 miles southwest of the park as some severe warned activity moved in around mid-afternoon Saturday. Then, Saturday evening while exiting the park for a bit, I was greeted by this nice base/lowering on a rain shower just to the west-northwest of the park. Similar activity had produced funnel clouds across E IA and NW IL during the late afternoon and evening on Saturday. 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IWXwx Posted August 21, 2022 Share Posted August 21, 2022 Had a landspout touchdown in East Central IN yesterday afternoon. 021 NOUS43 KIND 210010 PNSIND INZ021-028>031-035>049-051>057-060>065-067>072-210815- PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 810 PM EDT SAT AUG 20 2022 ...NWS DAMAGE SURVEY FOR 08/20/22 TORNADO EVENT #1... ...TORNADO #1... RATING: EF0 ESTIMATED PEAK WIND: 70 MPH PATH LENGTH /STATUTE/: 0.0559 MILES PATH WIDTH /MAXIMUM/: 20.0 YARDS FATALITIES: 0 INJURIES: 0 START DATE: 08/20/2022 START TIME: 03:29 PM EDT START LOCATION: 3 NNW WINCHESTER / RANDOLPH COUNTY / IN START LAT/LON: 40.2224 / -84.9967 END DATE: 08/20/2022 END TIME: 03:31 PM EDT END LOCATION: 3 NNW WINCHESTER / RANDOLPH COUNTY / IN END LAT/LON: 40.2231 / -84.9961 SURVEY SUMMARY: A LANDSPOUT TORNADO BRIEFLY TOUCHED DOWN NORTH OF WINCHESTER. WHILE ON THE GROUND, THE TORNADO CAME IN CONTACT WITH AN OLD OUTBUILDING, DAMAGING THE MEDAL ENCASING AND THE ROOF STRUCTURE. PARTS OF THE ROOF WERE THROWN DOWNWIND, WITH A FEW 2'X 4' BOARDS SCATTERED BETWEEN THE ROOF AND THE BUILDING. THE TORNADO LIFTED SHORTLY AFTERWARDS WITH NO FURTHER DAMAGE. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjwise Posted August 21, 2022 Share Posted August 21, 2022 21 hours ago, Hoosier said: It's actually been fairly dry around here this month. ORD only had 0.44" in Aug through yesterday, which is over 2" below average. Strong E-W gradient to precipitation this month in northern Illinois. DeKalb is up to 6.48" for the month, 1.7" from this last system. Freeport is the bullseye, over a foot of rain this month. Looks like spring outside here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted August 21, 2022 Author Share Posted August 21, 2022 1 hour ago, mjwise said: Strong E-W gradient to precipitation this month in northern Illinois. DeKalb is up to 6.48" for the month, 1.7" from this last system. Freeport is the bullseye, over a foot of rain this month. Looks like spring outside here. Indeed. ORD now at 1.05" for the month and I noticed there was actually a small D0 area added back in on the latest drought monitor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frostfern Posted August 21, 2022 Share Posted August 21, 2022 3 hours ago, mjwise said: Strong E-W gradient to precipitation this month in northern Illinois. DeKalb is up to 6.48" for the month, 1.7" from this last system. Freeport is the bullseye, over a foot of rain this month. Looks like spring outside here. There's quite a variation around Michigan too now. Still extremely dry over much of Northeast Lower MI, as well as the "Lake Erie Shadow" zone between Detroit and Toledo. I don't know how accurate these radar estimates are, but the showers and storms yesterday put down buckets over extremely localized spots. Kind of a tropical pattern with scattered slow moving storms blossoming in the afternoon with outflow / lake-breeze interactions determining where the heaviest rain falls. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frostfern Posted August 21, 2022 Share Posted August 21, 2022 Lots of 30-day wet and lots of 30-day screw zones on the map now, even though it has evened out some over the long haul. Spots of SE Iowa and the Saginaw Bay area are pretty deep in the hole for the entire summer at this point though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torchageddon Posted August 21, 2022 Share Posted August 21, 2022 16 hours ago, cyclone77 said: Another nice downpour, up to 0.95 for today, 1.13" since last evening. Always nice to see this out the front door. Love the contrasting colours and the mid-day bightness, love that pic. Low was a higher than avg 19C/67F overnight. I'm finally getting a long downpour making up for the misses last week and I'm at 20mm / 0.79in. It was a cluster of heavy showers (minimal thunder) and now this is an unique radar look: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted August 23, 2022 Author Share Posted August 23, 2022 ORD's high overachieved over the HRRR by 4-5 degrees. Even the runs from this afternoon missed by that much. That's a pretty good trick to pull off. Usually you're not going to beat the HRRR by that much unless the HRRR is modeling storms in the area and it ends up more sunny or something like that, but that's not what happened today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclone77 Posted August 25, 2022 Share Posted August 25, 2022 Nice soaker early this morning with some house shaking thunder. Picked up 2.03" bringing us to a little over 5.5" for Aug. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madwx Posted August 25, 2022 Share Posted August 25, 2022 3.05" overnight, well over projections. Brings the August total at my house to 7.97" 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hawkeye_wx Posted August 25, 2022 Share Posted August 25, 2022 Meanwhile, this is the third consecutive dud rain event for my yard. I got 0.09". We did well during the first week of August, but I've received only 0.49" total since then. I'm sitting at 2.99" for the month. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chambana Posted August 25, 2022 Share Posted August 25, 2022 August has been incredibly boring, September is 7 days away. Summer is gone in a flash. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hardypalmguy Posted August 25, 2022 Share Posted August 25, 2022 4 hours ago, Chambana said: August has been incredibly boring, September is 7 days away. Summer is gone in a flash. This whole summer has been boring. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted August 25, 2022 Author Share Posted August 25, 2022 3 minutes ago, hardypalmguy said: This whole summer has been boring. At least MKE hit 100. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A-L-E-K Posted August 26, 2022 Share Posted August 26, 2022 More micro storms Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjwise Posted August 26, 2022 Share Posted August 26, 2022 7 hours ago, hardypalmguy said: This whole summer has been boring. 90's in DeKalb: May - 3 June - 6 July - 2 August (assuming current forecasts hold true through the 31st) - 1 (only a 91, and we haven't had a high over 82 since that) May and June had me thinking we were in for a real steamer on par with 2012, but summer in most of this subforum just kind of rolled over after the solstice heat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baum Posted August 26, 2022 Share Posted August 26, 2022 ^ yep. dust bowl fail. In the end, pleasant with just enough moisture to keep things from browning out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baum Posted August 26, 2022 Share Posted August 26, 2022 11 hours ago, A-L-E-K said: More micro storms yeah. bizarre. on the patio with mainly clear skies and got constant cloud to cloud flashes of lightning at very low levels like a shadow effect from the storms off to my east. May have never experienced that before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cary67 Posted August 26, 2022 Share Posted August 26, 2022 12 hours ago, A-L-E-K said: More micro storms Managed to hit on a few of those 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted August 26, 2022 Author Share Posted August 26, 2022 Nothing impressive but the warmest wx in a while looks to be coming on Sunday and possibly Monday. Maybe a make a run at 90 in the urban core of Chicago kind of setup. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclone77 Posted August 26, 2022 Share Posted August 26, 2022 Looks like a tropical storm traversing the Dakotas this afternoon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luckyweather Posted August 26, 2022 Share Posted August 26, 2022 Looks like a tropical storm traversing the Dakotas this afternoon. a little west of the Huron-cane. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_Lake_Huron_cyclone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted August 27, 2022 Author Share Posted August 27, 2022 GFS getting a little again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclone77 Posted August 27, 2022 Share Posted August 27, 2022 You can tell the good folks at DVN are bored to tears lol. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicago Storm Posted August 28, 2022 Share Posted August 28, 2022 Nothing impressive but the warmest wx in a while looks to be coming on Sunday and possibly Monday. Maybe a make a run at 90 in the urban core of Chicago kind of setup.It took until the last few days of the month and it’s lower end, but finally a shot to rival my call. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baum Posted August 28, 2022 Share Posted August 28, 2022 55 minutes ago, Chicago Storm said: It took until the last few days of the month and it’s lower end, but finally a shot to rival my call. cloud cover would be key I would think Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicago Storm Posted August 28, 2022 Share Posted August 28, 2022 cloud cover would be key I would thinkMDW is a guarantee to hit, because it’s MDW.Elsewhere is more in question. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclone77 Posted August 28, 2022 Share Posted August 28, 2022 The MCV over southeast IA this morning started as far back as the eastern OK panhandle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baum Posted August 28, 2022 Share Posted August 28, 2022 ATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHICAGO/ROMEOVILLE, IL 1122 AM CDT SUN AUG 28 2022 UPDATE ISSUED AT 1120 AM CDT SUN AUG 28 2022 MAIN UPDATES THIS MORNING WERE TO DECREASE CLOUD COVER, INCREASE HIGH TEMPERATURES, AND FINE-TUNE PRECIPITATION CHANCES. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjwise Posted August 28, 2022 Share Posted August 28, 2022 91 reached at Midway. Warmest day in DeKalb in 3 weeks, a juicy 83/76 out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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