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PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHICAGO IL 1135 PM CDT TUE MAR 10 2026 .TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON .DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE. ..REMARKS.. 0630 PM HAIL 1 SE KANKAKEE 41.11N 87.84W 03/10/2026 E6.00 INCH KANKAKEE IL PUBLIC PHOTO SHOWS HAILSTONE APPROXIMATELY 6 INCHES IN DIAMETER IN SOUTHEASTERN KANKAKEE. TIME ESTIMATED BY RADAR.

Gfs brings back the coastal for next week. Need it stronger.

We'll see how the rest of Mar and Apr goes but it can't be lower than A- currently for many a reason. There's really no other winter i can think of overall better than this except for 95-96 and 10-11. Another 1-2 Mar/Apr adv or warning events and ill bump it up. Also no major busts, which is rare for any winter season. Most of our good or great ones had a couple. It's a lot like 2000-2001 with better snow pack. Strictly snowfall amounts yeah, but 04-05 was seriously back loaded. Probably 50-60% of our snow occurred from late feb to late mar that season. Each one melted right after it happened. And the "blizzard" sucked balls for most of CT..hours of light to mod snow that slowly piled up with no blizzard conditions. 02-03 was great but had many many teases and near busts like Dec 2002 christmas blizzard, Jan 2003. Also couldn't touch this season with snow pack. And we ended the season on a major Apr 7th bust. 02-03 was like 95-96 lite with wall to wall snow from Nov to Apr. Both those seasons were good-great but had plenty of problems, i think this winter is better overall, just my opinion.

Gotta love it.

Getting some good winds out of the squall line now.

Lots of run to run variability with this one, small shifts will be the difference between rain, ice and snow for peeps in Northern Illinois and Southern MI

I remember a March Friday in 1976 with good snowpack and temperatures in the 70s for night skiing after work at Nashoba Valley. Steely Dan’s Katy Lied was blasting on the lift line.

That line of storms in Northern Kane/Dekalb counties just tossed a few minutes of pea-sized hail near me. Wicked sound all around the house.

7pm to 7am still works mid March and can lay enough down to muffle the strong post daylight effect

Sure why not 77f tomorrow 2-4” Thursday sounds right.

@bncho was about to sleep, but then he saw the 0z GFS.

Did you get on storm later further east or did you see the Kankakee tornado and massive hail? We were on that storm by Pontiac. Got a brief touchdown with wickedly rotating wall cloud. Then storm just quit. We followed it a while. It got an elevated/outflow look and look terrible on radar and I figured it was getting into the more stable air north of boundary. We headed west and boy was that a mistake. One of my biggest chase mistakes of my career. This will sting a while.

LOL gfs

Gfs is sweet for you guys. Factor in time of year, time of day, obvious factors. I do think if everything aligns it will rip in places for a few hours.

Also what I've heard from Kankakee from my friends who chased there was that a lot of chasers got kinda caught out, large/giant hail was being flung around, and smashing cars, lot of damage in those neighborhoods

MDT set a record high today with 80.

This was the Toto/Knox IN tor-e, just a screenshot from a video but not great quality.

Damn, was headed that way but couldn't get in ahead of the cell so bailed south.

Snow possible on the back end on the models. Doesnt add up to anything but we know how these play out.

March 2015 had a solid anafrontal storm, around 4-8” as far as I remember.

Major damage in/near Lake Village IN with a report of 2 fatalities, multiple homes destroyed.

Winter is probably wrapped up by now in the lowlands, but it’s crazy to think that other years can bring a 1993 superstorm or March 1958 level HECS at this exact same time of the year. As for me my emotional investment in winter weather starts going down by mid March especially as we get spring weather, but I’ll still take a good snowstorm if it’s on the table.

Still 58!

Sounds like some damage in Knox but the EMA director didn’t sound too concerned. We also saw photos as it tracked south of South Bend but damage is relatively minor across the southern part of the county. Could have been much worse. We’ll see what daylight brings.