Chicago, IL Hit Hard - Moderate Risk - 8/04/08

Strong Storms leave Wide Spread Damage in Illinios and Indiana; Ben Holcomb reports for the Weather Channel

A strong line of thunderstorms raced across the northern U.S. Monday evening leaving damage from Iowa to Indiana. Many damage reports are coming in from the Chicago area where as many as 200,000 residents are without power. SevereStudios Chaser Ben Holcomb was Live on The Weather Channel Monday night with Jim Cantore, reporting what he was seeing as the line came through. Law Enforcement reports there has been one fatality in La Porte county in Indiana from a tree limb that has fallen on a vehichle from high winds around 9:06 PM CDT.

Related News:
Fox News Chicago and the South Bend Tribune

Widespread damage, fatality reported after storms rake Michiana (South Bend Tribune)

WEATHER WATCHES
Severe Thunderstorm Watch #808 for nothwest and west central Ohio until 4:00 AM.
(PDS)Severe Thunderstorm Watch #807 for parts northeast Illinois, northwest Indiana, southwest lower Michigan, and lake Michigan until 2:00 AM CDT. This is a Particulary Dangerous Situation (PDS). Extremely Dangerous winds gust of 90 MPH are possible.

10:43 PM CDT
Tornado Warning for Iroquois and Benton counties in Illinois.

A funnel was reported with this storm in Iroquois County at 10:47 PM CDT.

10:33 PM CDT
Tornado Warning for Miami and Wabash counties in Indiana.

10:14 PM CDT
Tornado Warning for Fulton, Kosciusko, Miami, Wabash, Elkhart counties in Indiana.
Tornado Warning for

9:23 PM CDT
Tornado Warning for Fulton, LaPorte, Marshall, Starke, St. Joseph, Berrien, Cass counties in Indiana.

9:08 PM CDT
Tornado Warning for LaPorte, St. Joseph, Berrien, and Cass counties in Indiana. A funnel was reported near Westville in Laporte county at 9:05 PM CDT. Also SevereStudios Chaser Ben Holcomb is currently in the Tornado Warning area and is streaming in the Live ChaseCam Network.

8:50 PM CDT
Tornado Warning for LaPorte and Starke counties in Indiana.

8:33 PM CDT
Tornado Warning for Lake and Porter counties in Indiana.

8:23 PM CDT
Tornado Warning for Kankakee, Will, and Lake counties in Illinois. There have been reports of Tornadoes with these storms.

8:18 PM CDT
Tornado Warning for Cook and Lake Counties in Illinois. At 8:14 PM CDT Law Enforcement reported a Tornado near Logan Square in Cook County.

8:14 PM CDT
Tornado Warning for Cook county in Illinois. This includes the City of Chicago.

8:03 PM CDT
A Tornado Warning for Cook, DuPage, and Will coutnies in Illinois. A Tornado was reported by Emergency Management near Elmhurst in DuPage County at 8:01 PM CDT.

7:54 PM CDT
Tornado Warning for Cook, DuPage, and Will counties in Illinois. A Tornado has been reported according to Fox News Chicago.

7:45 PM CDT
Tornado Warning still in eefect for Cook, DuPage, and Kane counties in Illinois. A trained weather spotter has reported a Tornado on the ground at near route 47 and i-90 near mile marker 32.

7:31 PM CDT
Tornado Warning for Cook, DuPage, and Kane counties in Illinois. Doppler Radar is showing strong rotation over Elburn at 7:24 PM CDT.

7:24PM CDT
Tornado Warning for Dekalb and Kane counties in Illinois.

6:59 PM CDT
Tornado Warning for Dekalb and Ogle counties in Illinois. The storm is also capable of producing destructive straight line winds.

6:38 PM CDT
Tornado Warning for Ogle county in Illinois.

5:55 PM CDT
Tornado Warning for Clinton county in Iowa.

REPORTS

Johnathan Brouwer was overrun today by a classic Bow echo on the radar. He grabbed a picture of it as it passed over. It was very striated and was extremely fast moving.

And the Radar of the bow:

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Today In Weather History:
1980 - A record forty-two consecutive days of 100 degree heat finally came to an end at the Dallas-Fort Worth Airport. July 1980 proved to be the hottest month of record with a mean temperature of 92 degrees. There was just one day of rain in July, and there was no measurable rain in August. There were 18 more days of 100 degree heat in August, and four in September. Hot weather that summer contributed to the deaths of 1200 people nationally, and losses from the heat across the country were estimated at twenty billion dollars. (David Ludlum) (The Weather Channel)