Severe Weather Alert from the National Weather Service
...SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHICAGO IL 1010 PM CDT TUE AUG 3 2004
... THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR COOK... DUPAGE AND WILL COUNTY IN ILLINOIS CONTINUES UNTIL 1130 PM CDT...
AT 1010 PM CDT SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM ROLLING MEADOWS TO 11 MILES WEST OF WILMINGTON... OR ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM ROLLING MEADOWS TO 9 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MORRIS... MOVING EAST AT 55 MPH.
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR... LOMBARD AROUND 1015 PM CDT. PROSPECT HEIGHTS AROUND 1020 PM CDT. WESTMONT AROUND 1025 PM CDT. NORTHBROOK AROUND 1030 PM CDT. WESTCHESTER AROUND 1035 PM CDT. WILLOW SPRINGS AROUND 1040 PM CDT.
THIS LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING... WINDS 60 TO 75 MPH... WHICH CAN KNOCK DOWN TREE LIMBS AND POWER LINES... DAMAGE SHEDS... BARNS AND OTHER WEAK STRUCTURES... AND PUSH TRUCKS OFF THE HIGHWAY.
LAT... LON 4213 8822 4128 8822 4138 8760 4214 8778
I'm north of there. Sounds like the storm is pounding JP's area right about now.
Wow, that's some storm. I had no idea. I've been keeping my eye on the hurricane off N.C. as that is where my Mom is. If the terrorists don't get us Mother Nature will.
our city streets were flooded and I was stuck but a mi from home listening to the radio in the car with Kinetic