Severe weather likely across the southern Great Lakes on Wednesday; includes Chicago Metro

A few tornadoes, as well as damaging winds and large hail are all expected tomorrow around Chicago. The highest risk of severe weather is shown by the map in red and marked ‘MDT’, which is short for moderate risk.

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‘Explosive thunderstorm development’ will be likely in the Midwest by late afternoon tomorrow, with ‘all severe weather hazards possible’, as discussed by the Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Oklahoma. The highest risk of tornadoes will lie along a warm front, predicted to drape across far northern Illinois and Indiana. Here, changing wind profiles will support rotating storms.

In all, damaging wind gusts are likely once storms develop in a region from northern Illinois, southern Wisconsin, northern Indiana, southern Michigan to northwest Ohio. Other severe storms will also be possible in a much larger area, from extending from Minnesota to Pennsylvania and as far south as South Carolina

Cox Media Group