Severe Thunderstorm Not So Severe on the Damage Reports; 68 Active Power Outages at 7:20 PM Thursday

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Turbulent clouds over the Target store at Rand Road and Thomas Street in Arlington Heights ahead of a thunderstorm with lightning, moderate winds, and quick heavy rain on Thursday evening, April 20, 2023.
Turbulent clouds over the Target store at Rand Road and Thomas Street in Arlington Heights ahead of a thunderstorm with lightning, moderate winds, and quick heavy rain on Thursday evening, April 20, 2023.

A quick thunderstorm brought impressive clouds, but not much lightning and only a short burst of heavy rain in the northwest suburbs of Chicagoland.

ComEd reported 68 Active Outages with 2,384 customers affected in Chicagoland at 7:36 p.m. after a quick thunderstorm rolled through the northwest suburbs about 6:15 p.m. Thursday, April 20, 2023. No outages were reported in Arlington Heights at 7:36 p.m., but a power outage involving about 32 customers was reported in the Plum Grove Estates neighborhood of Rolling Meadows in unincorporated Palatine Township. At one point over 600 customers were without power in Mount Prospect north of Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe.

At Quentin Road and Penny Road in the South Barrington area, a wood utility pole was snapped in half, and arcing power lines may have caused some grass to burn.

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Turbulent clouds over the Target store at Rand Road and Thomas Street in Arlington Heights ahead of a thunderstorm with lightning, moderate winds, and quick heavy rain on Thursday evening, April 20, 2023
Turbulent clouds over the Target store at Rand Road and Thomas Street in Arlington Heights ahead of a thunderstorm with lightning, moderate winds, and quick heavy rain on Thursday evening, April 20, 2023.




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