Murphy’s Law: You drive 7000 miles and see no tornadoes. Meanwhile, back home, a big tornado shows up.
While Scott and i were looking (independently) at the forecast for tomorrow, Scott looked over the 07 June Storm Reports at SPC and called me about the Chicago area reports of a ‘large tornado runing parallel to I-55’. Here’s the map of what he saw:
and the full storm report text:
http://www.spc.noaa.gov/climo/reports/080607_rpts.html
and the damage surveys: Results from Storm Surveys of June 7th Tornadoes
Side note: I am catching up entries for DAYS 11-17 from paper notes, which I had to take due to failure of my broadband modem and/or drivers on the road. (Bummer, eh?)