Good Monday to one and all. On this first full day of Summer, we are tracking a fall cold front into the bluegrass state. This is bringing heavy rain and strong storms to the region today and will be followed by another big blast of September temps. Things turn stormy again by the end of the week into the coming weekend as another front sweeps in.
Today’s front turns active, especially across central and eastern Kentucky. Storms that go up may turn strong or severe and produce torrential rains that can cause local high water issues. Here’s today’s Severe Weather Outlook from the Storm Prediction Center…
Behind this front comes some of the good stuff as September keeps throwing shots at us here in June. I for one am not complaining about this. 😎 Tuesday starts in the 50s and ends with highs in the 70-75 degree range for many as humidity levels tank. This allows for Tuesday night lows to drop way down there and we should be able to hit some upper 40s again…
Wednesday is another fantastic day to get out and enjoy.
Temps start to recover on Thursday as we watch start to track the next system rolling in here. This looks like a setup to feature waves of heavy rain producing showers and storms around here from the end of the week through the weekend, at least.
This may unleash some big time rain amounts on the region and this is a concerning look taking shape. Check out some of the model rainfall numbers from today through next Monday…
GFS
EURO
CANADIAN
Flash flooding could become a big concern by the weekend.
The pattern likely remains active through the 4th of July weekend and this shows up strongly in the rainfall departures from normal. Check out how far above normal our rainfall is on the average from the 51 member EURO Ensembles…
If we take the single run of the EURO Ensembles Control, it gives us a scary look…
Needless to say this is a stormy pattern that shows no signs of going away. It’s also a pattern looking to keep bringing cold fronts into this region for the foreseeable future. The tame temperature and wetter than normal summer seems to be on track as we get ready to close out the first month of the season.
After a little dance dad time off, I’m back on WKYT-TV this evening starting at 4 and will drop by with any necessary updates. As always, I have you all set to track today’s storms…
Possible Watch Areas
Make it a great Monday and take care.
After a very quiet Sunday afternoon with no severe weather or even rain for Metro Chicago, things really erupted with a vengeance Sunday evening! Several Tornado Warnings were issued between 10:45 PM and 12:15 AM for the west and southwest Chicago suburbs, and also NW Indiana. A couple of the tornado warnings were characterized as a PDS (Particularly Dangerous Situation) by the NWS, with the warnings indicating that a large and extremely dangerous tornado is on the ground! They even noted that radar picked up debris flying several thousand feet in the air.
About five minutes after I got home from work, the Plainfield tornado sirens all went off around 11 PM. This is where the tornado first appeared, about six miles north of me in Naperville. That tornado further intensified as it moved to the east, and there were many reports of damage around the Naperville/Woodridge/Darien areas in southern DuPage County (I’m in NW Will County just to the south). Hopefully there weren’t any serious injuries.
It will be very interesting to see the complete scope of the damage once daylight arrives.
Here is a link from a Chicago TV station with video of a reporter in Woodridge showing the tornado damage just after it happened, along with an article describing how the severe weather evolved Sunday night. http://abc7chicago.com/chicago-weather-forecast-radar-tornado-warning/10812340/
Thanks Mike for posting that tornado footage. All I can say is WOW ! Glad you are Okay.
Here is a link for the preliminary recap of the tornado that struck the SW Suburbs of Chicago Sunday night. The NWS is still in the process of surveying the tornado damage that occurred. Based on the damage and radar signatures, they are estimating the tornado was at least an EF-2.
Thank goodness there were no fatalities, but five people had to be transported to hospitals with injuries, and there were many minor injuries that had to be treated at the scene.
http://weather.gov/lot/2021june2021
Sorry about the bad link, here’s the correct one: http://weather.gov/lot/2021jun2021
The preliminary rating for this tornado is a strong EF-3, the strongest to hit the Chicago area since 2008! Watching the news coverage this afternoon of all the damage that occurred in Naperville and Woodridge, it’s no wonder that when the Tornado Warning was issued, it was characterized as a PDS (Particularly Dangerous Situation) by the Weather Service and a life-threatening situation!
Wow Mike. That’s pretty scary. We had boatloads of rain here today. The entire afternoon was so dark it felt like dusk.