Monday, August 13, 2007

EXCLUSIVE SEVERE WEATHER INFO

7:11AM - Numerous reports coming in of downed trees across the viewing area. Wind damage seems fairly widespread across northern Illinois. As of 5am there was a tree down at the corner of Alpine and State street. Regardless of where you live, drive carefully and courteously during your morning commute.

5:45am - All Warnings have been allowed to expire. Our severe weather threat has diminished significantly across the Stateline. Showers will continue for the next hour or so, but dry skies will take over quickly.

5:00am - SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING has been issued for northeastern Lee and DeKalb Counties until 5:45am.

4:44am - SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING has been extended for eastern Ogle County until 5:30am. The leading edge of this bow echo will be moving through Hillcrest by 4:55am and Rochelle by 5:05am. Wind gusts will approach 60 mph at times. These storms are moving rapidly to the southeast at 50 mph.

4:17am - SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING has been issued for Ogle County until 4:45am. This thunderstorm is packing dangerous and damaging winds. Stay indoors and away from windows until further notice.

3:35am - Initial gust front has moved into Winnebago County and the rain has commenced. Wind gust reported in Rockton of 52 mph by a trained spotter.

3:09am - SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING has been issued for Jo Daviess County until 4:15am. These thunderstorms are capable of producing damaging winds of approximately 60 mph, frequent lightning strikes, and heavy rainfall.

2:45am - SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH has been issued for Jo Daviess, Stephenson, Winnebago, Carroll, Whiteside, Ogle, Lee, and DeKalb Counties until 7am

12:18am - Meteorologist Adam Painter will be in the Weather Center at 2am with our storm coverage. Stay here on the blog for the most information. Stay safe, but if you have any weather photos, please E-Mail them to Adam at apainter@wrex.com. -ERIC

12:12am - Storms continue to progress southeast out of La Crosse. Storm damage has been extensive across Western Wisconsin and Eastern Minnesota tonight with rooves and windows blown off of buildings and dozens of reports of trees downed. These storms will move into the WREX-TV viewing area by 2 or 3am. Wind damage will be the primary threat, along with rainfall amounts near two inches.

9:42pm - A Severe Thunderstorm Watch has been posted for all of East-Central and South-West Wisconsin until 4am. This includes Green Co. Storms will approach the Rockford metro shortly after 2am.

10 comments:

Anonymous said...

What's the severe weather risk for later today along the I-80 corridor, say from Des Moines to Chicago? I was in Salina, KS yesterday and you can tell the high pressure system from hell was firmly in place. At 1300CDT, temp was at 106.

Anonymous said...

we just had the initial batch of torrential rain and storms here in loves park. i think there was hail too but its hard to tell at night. now waiting for the next batch, thankfully the gusty damaging winds will stay away from here.

Anonymous said...

This is the first place I go to for updated weather info. Thank you for providing this service!

Anonymous said...

ERIC, you were so right on the money during your forecast last night about this morning, I could have just about set my clock by it! Thx for being so informative, useful and entertaining at the same time. Good to have you back from vacation

Anonymous said...

So whats our chance of severe today, i was looking at the SPC and it doesn't really have us in the slight risk, its like missing us by a few.

Justin said...

52 mph is cutting it too close in my opinion. There should have been a warning issued for Winnebago county. Theres also some people without power.

Anonymous said...

I woke up when i heard the wind hitting the house. I honestly thought it was a tornado!!! It sounded almost like the July 4th storm with how the rain and wind were hitting our house.

Eric Sorensen said...

Justin, I agree with you. Winnebago and Stephenson Counties could both have easily been issued a Warning this morning as the leading edge of the complex pushed through shortly after 3:30am.

I'll analyze our severe weather risk on the main blog page here shortly.

Adam Painter

Anonymous said...

Maybe they were going to issue a warning but it moved through so fast that there wasn't the chance to put it up?

Anonymous said...

I agree, winnebago should have gone under a warning, just shows unless chicago is being hit directly, the NWS will only issue it if necessary. That's why i count on this blog. I know the initial gust front produced 50+ gusts here in loves park, then when the storm hit, the lightning was just intense along with the loud crashing of thunder. I ended up with 1.19 inches of rain.

tony