Tag result for article published on Mon April 08 2013 12:01 pm. CLICK TITLE TO EXPAND.Tags: high winds, National Weather Service
Winds have caused some property damage on the morning of Monday, April 8, 2013. As of 11:45 a.m. no Wind Advisory has been released by the National Weather Service. Between 8:45 a.m. and 11:00 a.m. winds at Chicago Executive Airport have been recorded to be steady from the southwest ranging from 14 mph to 26 [...]
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Tag result for article published on Thu December 20 2012 9:51 pm. CLICK TITLE TO EXPAND.Tags: high wind damage, high winds
Storm damage report of trees down in Prospect Heights and Palatine. In Prospect Heights a tree fell on a 2001 white Honda in the 800 block of Piper Lane at the Country Pine Apartments. Utility poles are also reported down (address developing) with a leaning pole at Willow Road and Wheeling Road — on the [...]
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Tag result for article published on Sun November 11 2012 2:09 pm. CLICK TITLE TO EXPAND.Tags: high winds, wind advisory
URGENT – WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHICAGO IL
1043 AM CST SUN NOV 11 2012
Sporadic power failures and fire/trouble alarm activations are occurring in the northwest suburbs of Chicago Sunday afternoon.
WINNEBAGO-BOONE-MCHENRY-LAKE IL-OGLE-LEE-DE KALB-KANE-DUPAGE-COOK-LA SALLE-KENDALL-GRUNDY-WILL-KANKAKEE-LIVINGSTON [...]
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Tag result for article published on Mon July 02 2012 1:23 pm. CLICK TITLE TO EXPAND.Tags: high winds, severe thunderstorms, storm damage, storm damage report, thunderstorm damage
Roof ripped off of Metro Industrial Tire & Supply on North Avenue in Lombard. Storms hit Addison, Glen Ellyn, Glendale Heights, Lombard, South Elgin, Wheaton, Winfield and more about 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Sunday. The storms destroyed many trees and ripped some roofs off of buildings with hurricane-force winds. The roof of Metro Industrial [...]
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Tag result for article published on Thu May 24 2012 5:23 pm. CLICK TITLE TO EXPAND.Tags: ComEd, high winds, power failure, power line down
Arlington Heights police and firefighters and other emergency responder in the northwest suburbs responded to numerous down power lines, blown transformer. In Mount Prospect, a line was pulled off of a house. A line was reported down in the 100 block of Stratford Place. In Arlington Heights, a tree was reported down in the 800 [...]
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Tag result for article published on Sun April 29 2012 12:41 pm. CLICK TITLE TO EXPAND.Tags: Busch Stadium weather, hail, high winds, killer storm, severe thunderstorm, St. Louis
High winds swept through a beer tent where 200 people gathered after a Cardinals game Saturday, killing one and seriously injuring five others. The owner of the bar that hosted the crowd said lightning, not wind, killed the patron. High winds swept through a beer tent where 200 people gathered after a Cardinals game Saturday, [...]
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Tag result for article published on Mon April 16 2012 7:02 pm. CLICK TITLE TO EXPAND.Tags: high winds, Weather
Mount Prospect police blocked access to northwestbound Rand Road from Schoenbeck Road for over three hours on Monday morning after high winds brought down a tree branch that dropped primary power lines (SOURCE: Reader photo). Sunday’s National Weather Service Wind Advisory was canceled early, but a new Wind Advisory activated Monday morning was associated with [...]
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Tag result for article published on Wed February 29 2012 11:49 am. CLICK TITLE TO EXPAND.Tags: high winds, National Weather Service, National Weather Service Wind Advisory, wind advisory
URGENT – WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHICAGO IL 901 AM CST WED FEB 29 2012 (Weather Underground Data …) …VERY WINDY CONDITIONS THIS MORNING THROUGH THIS EVENING… .STRONG AND GUSTY SOUTHWEST WINDS ARE DEVELOPING THIS MORNING AHEAD OF A DEEP LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM TRANSITIONING THROUGH THE UPPER MIDWEST. WINDS WILL DIMINISH THIS EVENING AS [...]
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Tag result for article published on Sat December 31 2011 7:18 pm. CLICK TITLE TO EXPAND.Tags: High Wind Advisory, high winds, National Weather Service, NWS Wind Advisory
Winds are expected to pickup significantly from the Southwest and South-Southwest about 5:00 a.m. Sunday. The highest winds are expected to start from the West about 8:00 a.m. Sunday. The National Weather Service puts the highest winds from 6:00 a.m. to 12 noon — and doesn’t rule out the possibility of High Wind Warning if [...]
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Tag result for article published on Mon December 26 2011 6:33 pm. CLICK TITLE TO EXPAND.Tags: fallen tree, fatality from fallen tree, high winds, South Whidbey, Washington
A girl was killed and four others were injured while riding in an SUV that was struck by a heavy tree branch. The accident occurred as high winds hit the Washington area. Tobiah Leonard, a nine-year-old girl, was killed about 12:45 p.m. Christmas Day when a 15-foot tree branch about one-foot in diameter fell onto [...]
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Tag result for article published on Tue November 29 2011 8:39 am. CLICK TITLE TO EXPAND.Tags: high winds, National Weather Service Wind Advisory, wind advisory
A 7:52 a.m. report from the National Weather Service reports northeast winds with wind speed at 22 MPH and gusts to 38 MPH. Two weather forecast models (GFS and ETAMOS) forecast the highest winds between 11:00 am. and 2:00 p.m. Tuesday. 12:12 p.m. — Power surges, circuit breakers popped, and light smoke occurred at a [...]
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Tag result for article published on Wed November 09 2011 10:38 am. CLICK TITLE TO EXPAND.Tags: Chicago, Chicagoland, high winds, hinds forecast
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHICAGO IL 935 AM CST WED NOV 9 2011 KANE-DUPAGE-COOK-LA SALLE-KENDALL-GRUNDY-WILL-KANKAKEE-LIVINGSTON- IROQUOIS-FORD-LAKE IN-PORTER-NEWTON-JASPER-BENTON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF…AURORA…WHEATON…CHICAGO…OTTAWA… OSWEGO…MORRIS…JOLIET…KANKAKEE [...]
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