Chicago Storm

hot-take: the wintry side on wednesday night/thursday morning will be more interesting around here than the severe side on wednesday afternoon.

ready for pound town in the area tonight...

Nice MCS/QLCS structure moving through the metro area.

0.25" hail very briefly here at ORD. Peak wind gust unknown, as the sensor went down, but it was 40MPH+.

Back home, I caught 0.50" hail on the yard cam.

2 minutes ago, Cheeznado said:

I felt the 10% hatched risk was overdone, I am pretty sure most if not all of the tornadoes reported were gusnadoes.

Agree on both accounts.

It seems that the only likely tornado just happened to be one that was unwarned and that no one saw (Delavan).

Gustnado yet again.

TDS near Delavan...unwarned.

8 minutes ago, King James said:

You don’t have to be trained to report?

4 minutes ago, Powerball said:

There's no foolproof way for the NWS to enforce who reports something and who doens't.

That said, the onus should be on the NWS to discern the legitimacy of a report before confirming it.

Unfortunately.

Even when Spotter Network was a way of reporting to the NWS (It's not anymore, no integration), it was a shit-show.

Remember back to a year to two ago, when a massive wedge was reported to be ongoing in Arkansas via SN. Radar was not supportive, but LZK still put out a warning and confirmed it.

1 minute ago, andyhb said:

Moisture is mixing out too much, temperatures getting too warm.

Yea, spreads closer to 20F now.

Also, a lot of cold outflow reports, which radar backs up. (Not overly surprising given the background setup)

Just now, King James said:

So why confirm?

Because not-so great chasers reported it, thus they confirmed it.

Then on the other end, more reputable chasers are on socials right now saying, wut?

6 minutes ago, snowlover2 said:

Confirmed now.

 

Gustnado based on video.

Some chasers need to realize that not every twisting dust/dirt whirl is a tornado.

2 minutes ago, A-L-E-K said:

liking these sinister vibes

 

 

that picture is sick af.

1 minute ago, snowlover2 said:

Peoria under a tornado warning. There was a confirmed SW of there.

 

Seems as if that confirmed one may not have been a reality.

Numerous chasers in the area reported nothing.

1 hour ago, cyclone77 said:

The Euro definitely gets an F- for it's handling of the placement of the warm front today.  We were supposed to make 70, but will likely stay in the 40s with a stiff northeast wind.  This must be what it feels like to live along LM in May lol.

Bad job across the board, really. This time yesterday, pretty much all guidance had the warm front north of here.

Classic I-80 early spring warm front scenario.

14 minutes ago, sbnwx85 said:

I have to wonder if the dust being mixed in is helping make good lightning. Just a hypothesis. 

It's just that convection has continuously curled into the cold sector.

Very dynamic storm system overall.

Solid yellow/orange sky as this rain/t'storm activity moves in here at home.

I dig the dust.

Another round of dust this morning/afternoon...

hot-take: the wintry side on wednesday night/thursday morning will be more interesting around here than the severe side on wednesday afternoon.

Figured it's time for this too...

On 3/14/2025 at 2:45 PM, michsnowfreak said:

Wow nothing here. What kind of tree is that?

That particular one is a Silver Maple.

So, one of the usual early bloom-ers. However, there are some other species at nearly the same level as well.

ORD finished with a final event snowfall total of 1.1” yesterday.

The seasonal snowfall total is now 15.9".

Final event snowfall total here at home of 2.2”.

Not the biggest event of the season, but top 5.

4 minutes ago, Chicago Storm said:

Rip city futility.

Rip city.

7 hours ago, Chicago Storm said:

Anyone's guess on what happens with the snow this morning and afternoon.

Guidance is severely struggling with dynamic aspect of things.

Anddddd.....

On 3/15/2025 at 12:17 AM, Castaway said:

I was reading back on the thread and saw this...

What's seen here is actually an area of lower CC between areas of precipitation, not an actual tornadic CC sig.