The forecast is so dire Mac and Spiegs had Kaplan on to ask him if Mac's satellite dish was in jeopardy of missing the Hawks game tonight.

URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 298
NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
150 PM CDT WED JUN 12 2013

THE NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF
NORTHEAST IOWA
NORTHERN ILLINOIS
EXTREME SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA
SOUTHWEST WISCONSIN

* EFFECTIVE THIS WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING FROM 150 PM
UNTIL 900 PM CDT.

...THIS IS A PARTICULARLY DANGEROUS SITUATION...

* PRIMARY THREATS INCLUDE...
SEVERAL INTENSE TORNADOES LIKELY
SEVERAL SIGNIFICANT DAMAGING WIND GUSTS TO 80 MPH POSSIBLE
SEVERAL VERY LARGE HAIL EVENTS TO 3 INCHES IN DIAMETER POSSIBLE

THE TORNADO WATCH AREA IS APPROXIMATELY ALONG AND 65 STATUTE
MILES EITHER SIDE OF A LINE FROM 35 MILES WEST SOUTHWEST OF MASON
CITY IOWA TO 20 MILES EAST SOUTHEAST OF ROCKFORD ILLINOIS. FOR A
COMPLETE DEPICTION OF THE WATCH SEE THE ASSOCIATED WATCH OUTLINE
UPDATE (WOUS64 KWNS WOU8).

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR
TORNADOES AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH
AREA. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR
THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS
AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

&&

DISCUSSION...POTENTIALLY EXPLOSIVE THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT IS
POSSIBLE OVER THE NEXT FEW HOURS AS GRADUALLY DEEPENING SURFACE LOW
TRACKS EAST ALONG A FRONTAL ZONE SITUATED FROM NORTHEAST IOWA
EASTWARD ALONG THE WI/IL BORDER TO LAKE MICHIGAN. A VOLATILE WARM
AND VERY MOIST AIRMASS SHOULD FUEL INTENSE THUNDERSTORM UPDRAFTS
ACROSS THESE AREAS WHERE MID LEVEL FLOW IN EXCESS AROUND 50KT
SUPPORTS UPDRAFT PERSISTENCE AND ORGANIZATION. A NUMBER OF
SUPERCELLS ARE EXPECTED PRIOR TO A CONSOLIDATION OF STORMS INTO A
LARGE MCS TOWARD EVENING. LOW LEVEL SHEAR/HELICITY NEAR THE SURFACE
LOW AND ALONG THE FRONT WILL SUPPORT SOME TORNADOES WITH ANY
DISCRETE CELLS. A COUPLE STRONG TORNADOES SEEM POSSIBLE WITHIN THIS
ENVIRONMENT OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS IN ADDITION TO VERY LARGE
HAIL AND LOCALIZED DOWNDRAFT/DAMAGING WIND THREATS.

It's more fun to be a victim

There will never be an effective vaccine. I'll never get one anyway.

This doesn't include the Chicago metro area yet....but it probably will by about the time the Hawks game starts. A "PARTICULARLY DANGEROUS SITUATION" is just that. Supercells will fire up and they will spawn tornadoes. Its not a question of if, its a question of when and where. Be safe, keep an eye to the sky and be ready to take shelter quickly (especially Don Tiny, Darkside, COF and others who live further west). If you are going to the United Center tonite, take a minute to find out where their storm shelters are, and be ready to get down to the 100 level quickly and safely if needed.

rpb is wrong. Phil McCracken is useful.

RPB is right. You suck.

It's more fun to be a victim

There will never be an effective vaccine. I'll never get one anyway.

It's more fun to be a victim

There will never be an effective vaccine. I'll never get one anyway.

I'm in Lockport, when do I die in this mighty storm?

It's more fun to be a victim

There will never be an effective vaccine. I'll never get one anyway.

I did. He's a bonerfuck now though.

I looked into going to school in Oklahoma to study weather. Gotta basically be a physics major though and I am no good at math

There is not a damned thing wrong with people who are bull shitters.

When tornado warned cell (southern storm) in N IL collides w/boundary over Chicago suburbs, it could be big trouble.

That blue line is very close to my house.

You're telling me.

$15.88 plus tax does NOT equal FREE.

I'm not fucking Chus.

I'm fucked.

These were taken from the parking lot of Nancy's Pizza at the corner of Main and Willow in Wheaton. Main St. south of the tracks is a river. The pictures were taken facing south. That is the Wheaton Meat Co. on the right, with the blue awning.

Shoe repair is a big enough business to have an entire shop?

Many that is true, but an incomplete statement.

The plot thickens...

There is not a damned thing wrong with people who are bull shitters.

The plot thickens...

The plot thickens...

I have MANY years of experience in trying to appreciate steaming piles of dogshit.

That storm was a real shovel-spoke.