It’s been a wild two days over the nation’s mid-section. Swarms of t-storms have battered nine states in the Plains and Midwest, producing more than 415 reports of severe weather--two dozen of them involving twisters. At the same time, a record-breaking late season snowstorm has buried the Black Hills and northern Rockies. At the 7,500 ft. level in the Montana mountains just northeast of Yellowstone National Park, 38” has fallen since mid-week.
Torrential t-storm downpours were again the big story to the east in Nebraska. Near every rainfall record in Grand Island over the past two days—including the all-time records for 6, 12 and 24-hour totals there—have been broken by the 7.21” of rain which fell there Wednesday and Thursday. Hurricane force wind gusts of 90 m.p.h. in other t-storms whipped Syracuse in eastern Nebraska.
WGN-TV Chief Meteorologist Tom Skilling and the WGN Weather Center staff provide daily coverage of weather in the Chicago area.
