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Couple of stills from the tornado warned cell near McNabb, Illinois this evening.  Around 5:30-5:45 pm.  Came close to producing but became wrapped in rain from my location so couldn’t see if it ever did.  

Looks like a Tornado Watch out til 9 for much better of N and C IL

1 hour ago, A-L-E-K said:

 

After reading the tweet, I was waiting for some 5 foot wave to knock him down and into the lake.   

Pics of second severe warned storm around 6:15 pm this evening in western Kankakee County.  Only some pea sized hail. 
 

14 hours ago, Chicago WX said:

Going to end with 11.98" of rainfall for met summer IMBY. About half of which (6.14") fell in the last 10 days of June.

June: 6.91"

July: 1.76"

August: 3.31"

Any idea how many 90’s this year?

1 hour ago, steve23guy said:

I mean south east sorry 

Yes. I was looking South East 

Pic of severe warned storm to my south east this evening in Indiana.  
 

4 hours ago, vortex said:

Quick pic of Paw Paw tornado.  
Post vid later 

 

Stills from video by Paw Paw. 
First one was the beginning of the tornado.
Second is a zoomed in pic.   

Quick pic of Paw Paw tornado.  
Post vid later 

Wasn’t trying to chase but took this pic of tornado warned cell west of Bloomington while driving to an event there.  

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

Me looking for the tor

Haha. 
Went up to the 30th floor and took this as it was passing the South Loop 
 

Not mine but from Danforth last night. 

1 hour ago, Chicago WX said:

No problem RC. And yeah, I've thought about joining CoCoRAHS. May need to...to at least give this area some legit snowfall reports. 

We definitely need it. 
Remember how damn awful the Wastewater Plant was.  

South Loop from this morning.  
You can see the rat trails in the snow.  JK 

2 hours ago, Chicago WX said:

Missed my midnight measurement... , but woke up at 4 to start shoveling. Measured 4.3" additional...so a storm total of 9.7". Good stuff.

Nice.  Sounds bout the same here.  Hopefully Ricky (LOT) uses your measurement for an “official” total for Kankakee.  Going to be interesting, to say the least, to see what the other observers  totals are.  

15 minutes ago, Chicago WX said:

1.8" here last hour. Pukage continues.

What you have for storm total so far?

14 minutes ago, SchaumburgStormer said:

Shit isn’t good out here in the stix. 19” base of powder that had plenty of time to dry out with -20 dews is blowing like crazy. 
 

Snagged this from a Facebook group, but it’s a fair representation of our east/west roads. 
 

Same here.  Plow in ditch.  Taken by county highway plow.  

30 minutes ago, Chicago WX said:

Conditions are something here. Just so much snow, it’s like fog. Just measured 3.2”. So in addition to part one’s 2.2”, up to 5.4” storm total. Will measure again at midnight. Going to be a long night. 

Just measured 4.1” here about 4.5 miles NW of the city.  Currently sitting in a heavy band and poring snow.  


 

51 minutes ago, Chicago WX said:

Dumping snow. Getting that foggy look.

Similar look to 99, in terms of visibility and flake size.  

Outbound Ryan Expressway 

Guesstimate  about 1.5” or so here.  

Rain, snow and sleet mixture here after the initial heavy snow  burst.   

18 minutes ago, tuanis said:

Should have no problem accumulating with rates like that. Did temps drop with dynamic cooling?

It’s still 35 here but sticking pretty good.  
 

2 minutes ago, Chicago WX said:

Started as 5 minutes of pingers, and then all snow. Coming down pretty good right now. Some decent size flakes in there too.

Coming down good.  

1 hour ago, Chicago WX said:

Last gasp snow still snowing decently here. Measured the snow on my backyard bar (concrete top) and it had 9.5" on it. That's untouched since the storm began. So total storm total has surpassed dd's, considering compaction/settling. Finally, the drought is over, lol.

And a minor rant, which vortex probably shares, but the few local observers around really don't know what the f*ck they're doing with snow measurements. Always some nonsensical amounts. One county CoCoRAHS observer reported 2.7" of snow on 0.71" precip this morning at 5:00 AM. The storm was 99% snow. And the ratios certainly weren't that sh*tty.  

Yup.  They are absolutely terrible.   
Guarantee most wait until the snow has completed stopped until they measure.  
Probably measuring under a porch or something.   Lol.