Monday, August 8, 2011

Severe Storms in Illinois

I decided to briefly follow this possibly tornadic cell just north of Peoria IL. So far, listening to spotters in the field, no rotation has been observed. Heavy rain is occurring.. At 6:15cdt, Putnam county has been cleared of Severe Thunderstorm warning.

Lincoln IL is reporting trees down, primarily on private property.

I like their arrangement. Teams of spotters each reporting on conditions at their locations. Fire depts and other emergency services participated in the 'spotting', working in conjunction with other spotters in the field over a police scanner frequency for emergency services.

I wonder if we have anything like that here in Louisville? I haven't seen the service used over police scanner frequencies if it exists..

It is now close to 6:30pm cdt, many spotters, at least with the fire depts are 'standing down', I guess heading back to the station.

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