Only a few more weeks left of summer but this is no time to let our guard down when it comes to severe weather in the Chicago area.
In total, the derecho produced 26 confirmed tornadoes across Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Indiana.
The tornadoes include an EF-1 tornado in Rogers Park, Ill. , that moved out over Lake Michigan and became a waterspout. This was the first tornado in the city of Chicago since . This was the first F-1/EF-1+ tornado in the city of Chicago since March 12, 1976 that clipped the far northwest side of the city, roughly near O'Hare Airport and Edison Park.that produced ten tornadoes in our area on Aug. 9, 2021. The strongest estimated winds that day reached 110 mph. Thunderstorms also produced flooding rain with some spots receiving nearly 4 inches.Lake Michigan was rocked by strong winds that whipped up record waves back on Aug. 10, 2012.
Wave heights peaked at 13.5 feet during the event, surpassing the previous record for August of 11.8 feet. Perhaps most remarkable were the 9 straight hourly observations that day that recorded wave heights of 10 feet or greater. Since 1981, there had only been 13 total hourly observations at the south buoy in August that had wave heights of 10 feet or greater.
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