2026 Severe Wx - General Thread

[SchaumburgStormer]

25 minutes ago, CheeselandSkies said:

Looks like a swing and a miss for a peak heating supercell threat today. However 5 years ago OTD was a different story.

I remember @Chicago Storm being super gung ho about this setup on here which was one of the reasons I went for it despite SPC only having a 2% (later upgrade to 5%). He nailed the longer-lived/more photogenic Sycamore-Virgil tornadoes. I saw the storm I was on go HP on the next cycle and started for home, thinking it would have worked over the atmosphere. However I still consider the Kirkland EF1 my first "official" tornado since it's the first one I was actually able to stop, tripod and watch for a few minutes instead of frantically driving to get either closer to (such as the Esmond EF0 at the beginning of the video) or out of the way of it.

Sycamore tornado touched down less than 1/2 mile south of my house. Had a great view from the back deck 

[sbnwx85]

Impressive-looking bowing segment just to my west. Some damage reports from this in Michigan City already.

[sbnwx85]

Nice storm but nothing noteworthy. Got plenty of needed rain and good boomers.