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Yahoo USA Top Latest News - Two lines of severe thunderstorms raced towards the Chicago area Monday evening, bringing torrential rains and damaging straight-line winds. The first line of storms hit the Chicago area between 5 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. Monday night, while another line of severe storms raced in behind them. Tornado sirens blared Monday evening in west suburban Aurora after a possible funnel cloud was spotted, but no damage was reported.
At the height of the storm, a west suburban house caught fire. ComEd increased its staffing and opened its emergency operations center Monday afternoon in advance of the severe weather. As of 8:30 p.m. Monday, ComEd reported 66,000 customers without power.
The National Weather Service Storm Prediction Center (SPC) has issued a “Particularly Dangerous Situation Severe Thunderstorm Watch” for southeast Wisconsin, northeast Illinois, northwest Indiana and southwest Michigan until 9 p.m. central. - Weather For Chicago Today
Chicago Weather For Today - This includes Chicago and Milwaukee.
Widespread damaging winds to 80 mph, large hail, and one or two tornadoes are possible in this area. “Numerous severe thunderstorms capable of large hail, tornadoes and swaths of damaging wind are expected today into tonight over much of the Corn Belt and Midwest,” SPC says.
Already, thunderstorms have exploded over portions of Nebraska and Iowa today, with multiple reports of damaging winds and hail. One tornado watch covers a large chunk of Iowa and western Nebraska until 6 p.m. central time. A second tornado watch covers eastern Iowa, northwest Illinois and southern Wisconsin until 7 p.m. central.
A concern is that these thunderstorms will evolve into a derecho, a rapidly moving storm complex featuring damaging winds along at least a 240 mile path.
The line of storms could arrive in the Chicago and Milwaukee region between approximately 7 and 10 p.m. tonight (local time). - Chicago Weather For Today
