The heavy weather that rolled through the Chicago-area this afternoon featuring tornado warnings, high winds, heavy rains and hail has started to move northeast out of the area.
The National Weather Service released a pair of tornado warnings over about 2 hours as the storm thundered through the area. The first, for southeastern DeKalb County, southern Kane County, western Kendall County and northeast LaSalle County, expired at 2:15 p.m., and the second, for northern DuPage County and northwestern Cook County, was in effect until 3 p.m. but was canceled early, about 2:40 p.m.
While no tornadoes were actually spotted, high winds and heavy rain were present. And the storms did produce hail the size of a quarter and larger, according to a weather service observers in north suburban Morton Grove and southwest suburban Tinley Park and Oak Forest. Another observer said there were wind gusts up to 60 m.p.h in south suburban Peotone.
The weather service also a severe thunderstorm warning, which expired at 2 p.m., for southeast DeKalb County, northwest Grundy County, Kendall County and LaSalle County. That storm produced hail the size of a quarter in LaSalle, according to a weather service observer.http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-10-14/news/chi-sever-thunderstorm-warning-for-far-west-suburbs-20121014_1_heavy-weather-weather-service-tornado-warnings
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