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Severe thunderstorm with high winds and hail hit Chicago's northwest side around 5:15pm on Thursday, July 23, 2009. Heavy rainfall up to 2 inches fell.
Alma and Greg Jones from Aurora, Ill., were traveling North on Route 39 back home when they spotted this swirling funnel cloud in the sky around 6:30pm Sunday evening, July 5.
Greg said they were traveling North on Route 39 just a few miles West and South of 88 when they saw the thin funnel cloud drop and swirl in the sky. "It was so close we just had to get these pictures and video," Greg said. "Hope you enjoy them and can use them." We certainly are enjoying the video. Thanks for sharing it, Greg and Alma!
Our thanks to Rusty Kapela, Warning Coordination Meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Sullivan, Wis., for sharing this video with us taken by Co-op Observer Josh Herman of Oshkosh, Wis.
Josh writes, "Here is my version of 'taking a cup of boiling hot water and hoisting it into the air as hard, fast and high as you can, and it will become an instant cloud of vapor.' The video was taken in Oshkosh, Wis. on Friday, Jan 16, 2009, at around 7 a.m. Temperature was -13°F."
Thanks Rusty and Josh for sharing this with us!
--Tom Skilling, Chief Meteorologist, WGN-TV/Chicago Tribune
Source: Rusty Kapela, National Weather Service-Sullivan and Josh Herman, COOP Observer, Oshkosh, Wisconsin
