Heavy Rainfall to Continue Through Tonight in Central Texas; Heat in the East, Interior Northwest, and Southwest

Isolated heavy rainfall will continue through tonight across portions of central Texas, though some relief from the heavy rain is expected on Tuesday. Heat and humidity will remain in place across the Eastern U.S. and interior Northwest U.S. over the next few days with widespread moderate to major Heat Risk. Dangerous heat will build into the Desert Southwest Tuesday through Thursday. Read More >

A Few Funnel Clouds Across the Western Chicago Metro Tuesday Evening, June 24, 2014


Glen Ellyn around 6 pm. Photo courtesy of Norm Ramil.	Oak Brook around 6:15. Photo courtesy of Annie Marie.

ORD Terminal Doppler Weather Radar 1.8° Loop from ~5:30 pm - 6:45 pm

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Note multiple elongated boundaries that intersect and storms that develop on these. The updrafts of these developing storms stretched pre-existing low-level "spin" and helped produce the funnel clouds.

ORD Terminal Doppler Weather Radar 1.8° Storm-Relative Motion indicating rotation near the cloud base level

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