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Tor warned here. I’ve actually lost track of how many we’ve had. What a crazy year Edit: Warning was cancelled before it got here. Nice little non rotating wall cloud rolled through though. I’d estimate 50mph gusts. Power is out. Was a fun one

I am absolutely loving this show. Got about 12 mosquito bites taking this though. Little bastards

Some neat cloud formations over the lake this morning. No rotation. Just kinda cool

Always seem to get something on or around the 4th around here. A couple years ago I was at a fireworks show with epic lightning and an approaching storm in the distance and that wasn’t the first time. Wouldn't hate if that happened again. Not looking like that’ll happen on the 4th which I guess is good but seems to happen a lot

Forget all your typical heatwave songs. Time for us to enjoy the summer like the manly men we are. Anyone got an extra scooter? We’re in this for a while better make the best of it lol

Actually asking. What is the effect of the tropical storm going to have on this? It has to have some impact I feel like it’ll steal some energy, no? Nobody seems to be talking about it and I’m legit asking

Water spout at Cedar Point

EF-1 confirmed in Somers near Kenosha. Missed me by a few miles. That is the second confirmed tornado in the little town of Somers this season. https://www.fox6now.com/news/wisconsin-confirmed-tornado-thursday-061126.amp

This is from Kouts

Given how beautiful the Kenosha storm was there is a TON of pictures/videos coming in. I’m thinking the “public confirmed” tornado was actually a rotating wall cloud that never actually made it to the ground. But given the rotation a lot of people thought it was.

Confirmed tornado in northern Kenosha. Missed me by a few miles. Video here: https://x.com/kenoareaweather/status/2065212739945934931?s=46 (Not the actual tornado but just an early video put out) Absolutely beautiful storm though

My brothers tree took a lightning strike in Algonquin. Power is still out there as well

Power just went out in Algonquin

Wasn’t expecting a watch this far east. Probably won’t even get here until 4-5am and I can’t imagine it’ll stay together but we’ll see. I’ll take a few rumbles even if that’s the most I get out of it. edit: ended up being nothing as expected but some good c2g so I’ll take it

Was south of Springfield 2 weeks ago and was commenting to a friend that I’ve never seen so much dust blowing around in Illinois before. The winds weren’t even all that strong. About an hour later we got a push alert on our phones for a dust storm warning. I don’t think I’ve ever had a push alert for that in Illinois before.

Milwaukee has 35,000 without power as well

Moderate now for parts of Missouri and Illinois. I feel somewhat vindicated.

00z HRRR came in hot for eastern Missouri and central Illinois. Looking like a more limited risk for LOT but things down south are looking quite spicy Edit: No moderate risk on the new day 1. Is my weenie certificate mailed to me or do I need to pick it up in person?

No moderate risk on the day 2 so I’ll probably be wrong. But I still see high risk potential in the Springfield area tomorrow. I’m willing to take the weenie penalty if I’m wrong but at the very least there should be a moderate there. I don’t know I’m just some fucking guy.

Am I being a weenie thinking this has high risk potential around the STL to Springfield area? I know it’s still too early to tell but the models certainly aren’t backing down.

Fair response. I have a friend there and he claimed the sirens activated first before any warning was issued, then again after the threat had passed and he sent me video of the fact in real time. But I appreciate your first hand account, he’s not a weather weenie. I made a post in the banter thread about the automated system being used and how it’s working. Appreciate your genuine experience with it. I’m not trying to shit on the new system just wanting to get legit first hand experiences which you did so thank you.

Yeah I don’t mean to be sounding critical and this isn’t really on the spc, the warning was justified. This is more on my city specifically. I get it, tornado warning is issued so they sound the alarm. But then 90min (not an exaggeration) elapsed and they never sounded them again. Meanwhile Libertyville’s automated alarm system kept going off well after the threat had passed.

Ours went off 90 min ahead of time then never went off again when it finally hit, and there was definitely radar indicated rotation when it did arrive. Plus it was the 4th day in a row our sirens have gone off way too early. Being right next to the lake we are always at the tail end of these warnings. The general public has to be so irritated at this point. I get they want to give as much warning time as possible but 90min and then not sounding them again when the threat is imminent is not ideal.

Anyone have thoughts on this? So far I am not a fan. Mundelein had their sirens go off on Tuesday for a severe thunderstorm warning that didn’t really amount to anything. Today Libertyville had their sirens go off an hour before a warning was ever even issued, then went off 2 more times during and then again after the threat had already passed. Not sure having sirens go off for severe thunderstorm warnings is a great idea. People are just going to start ignoring them more than they already are. I understand the desire to automate them but I’m not sure it’s working all that well right now. We all know the story about crying wolf.