Saturday, June 9, 2007

Bevent, WI Tornado Aftermath, June 7th 2007




Bevent, Wisconsin Tornado and its destruction near Hwy 153 and CTY J around 5pm on June 7th, 2007. (Footage Courtesy of Matt Kaskavitch and Matt Westlund)

While Chicago escaped the worst from a line of thunder storms, Thursday evening 7 June 2007, the Northern Suburbs took most of the punch. Rain totals varied from Villa at 1.38" to Grayslake at 3.60". Most of the damage was downed trees, power lines and flash floods.

Wisconsin was entirely a different story, Where five tornado's touched down. At Bear Paw in Langslade County, Wisconsin, the resort was struck by a tornado rated by NWS as a EF3 with winds estimated between 140 to 165 MPH. It lost 10 buildings with damage estimated at some $200,000.00. As of Friday AM NOAA reported a total of 292 reports of severe weather across the region. There were some minor injuries but no deaths reported in any of the Wisconsin storm reports.

Below is the summary from WCM Chicago Jim Allsopp of the storm damage in the Chicago area.

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PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHICAGO/ROMEOVILLE IL
1240 PM CDT FRI JUN 08 2007

..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..

0700 PM NON-TSTM WND DMG CHICAGO 41.88N 87.63W
06/07/2007 COOK IL DEPT OF HIGHWAYS

CHICAGO DEPT OF STREETS AND SANITATION REPORTED 884 TREES
DOWN OR DAMAGED...71 TRAFFIC SIGNALS OUT...45 LIGHT POLES
DAMAGED...76 DOWNED WIRES TO LIGHT POLES AND LIGHTS.
OFFICIAL WIND GUSTS TO 45 MPH ATMIDWAY...OHARE...WAUKEGAN
AND VALPARAISO. GUST TO 48 MPH AT ROMEOVILLE.

0955 PM TSTM WND DMG DIXON 41.85N 89.48W
06/07/2007 LEE IL EMERGENCY MNGR

TREE LIMBS AND POWER LINES DOWN.

1005 PM TSTM WND GST MOUNT MORRIS 42.05N 89.43W
06/07/2007 E60.00 MPH OGLE IL FIRE DEPT/RESCUE

TREE LIMBS DOWN.

1020 PM TSTM WND DMG BYRON 42.13N 89.26W
06/07/2007 OGLE IL DEPT OF HIGHWAYS

6 INCH TREE LIMBS DOWN.

1100 PM TSTM WND DMG DIXON 41.85N 89.48W
06/07/2007 LEE IL DEPT OF HIGHWAYS

TREES AND LIMBS DOWN.

1140 PM TSTM WND DMG KIRKLAND 42.09N 88.85W
06/07/2007 DE KALB IL DEPT OF HIGHWAYS

TREE LIMBS BLOWN DOWN IN NORTHWEST PART OF DEKALB COUNTY.


1156 PM TSTM WND GST WAUKEGAN 42.37N 87.87W
06/07/2007 M52.00 MPH LAKE IL OFFICIAL NWS OBS

WAUKEGAN AIRPORT.

1200 AM TSTM WND DMG CRYSTAL LAKE 42.23N 88.33W
06/08/2007 MCHENRY IL LAW ENFORCEMENT

TREE LIMBS DOWN. ESTIMATED 60 MPH WIND FROM SPOTTER.

1200 AM HAIL CRYSTAL LAKE 42.23N 88.33W
06/08/2007 M0.75 INCH MCHENRY IL TRAINED SPOTTER

1214 AM TSTM WND DMG WAUCONDA 42.27N 88.14W
06/08/2007 LAKE IL NEWSPAPER

LARGE TREE DOWN.

1216 AM TSTM WND DMG GRAYSLAKE 42.35N 88.04W
06/08/2007 LAKE IL NEWSPAPER

LARGE TREE FELL ON A HOUSE.

1218 AM TSTM WND DMG ROUND LAKE 42.35N 88.11W
06/08/2007 LAKE IL NEWSPAPER

ROOF TORN OFF LUMBERYARD.

1255 AM FLOOD 1 W BEACH PARK 42.42N 87.88W
06/08/2007 LAKE IL CO-OP OBSERVER

2.00 INCHES OF RAIN SO FAR WITH 1.46 IN PAST 60 MINUTES.

0100 AM TSTM WND GST WAUKEGAN 42.37N 87.87W
06/08/2007 M62.00 MPH LAKE IL OFFICIAL NWS OBS

WAUKEGAN HARBOR.

0207 AM FLOOD MCHENRY 42.34N 88.29W
06/08/2007 MCHENRY IL TRAINED SPOTTER

2.5 INCHES OF RAIN FROM 10 PM TO 2AM CDT.

0529 AM FLASH FLOOD 2 WNW ZION 42.47N 87.88W
06/08/2007 LAKE IL LAW ENFORCEMENT

ILLINOIS ROUTE 173 AND DELANY ROAD ARE CLOSED DUE TO
LOCAL FLOODING

0702 AM FLASH FLOOD 3 W ZION 42.46N 87.90W
06/08/2007 LAKE IL LAW ENFORCEMENT

THE WATER OVER ILLINOIS ROUTE 173 AND KILBOURNE IS SLOWLY
RECEDING


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ALLSOPP

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