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After I came home from college classes around 4PM I had a chat on the phone when about 20 minutes or so into the conversation the tornado sirens were blasting loud. It looked pretty decent outside so I figured local service were testing them as they always do, hell no. I turned on the Weather Channel and there it was tornado warning in red. Ok so I've been here before living in Illinois and I wasn't too freaked. I went outside as I always do to check for the location of the tornado but i couldn't see anything. Then the sirens stopped all of a sudden so I figured nice, it's over with I can go eat dinner now.
I come back inside and the tornado warning is now updated to have it out of the area. Then all of a sudden not just five minutes later the sirens blast again and this time a red flash interuption warning came up signaling that the tornado is in the local area. So I bolted back outside and seen nothing, and the sirens again stopped. I went over to chat with the neighbors who decided to also take a peak at what's going on. After pointing out what I know to them I seen a wall cloud forming about two miles south west of the street we were on and surely enough the sirens hit yet again so everyone went back inside. The new warning was set that there was a tornado heading on HW 80 towards Calumet and Indiana's East Chicago. Then another updated shown that a new formation of clouds that may produce tornadoes was heading towards Frankfort square (mind you all I live a stone's throw away from there).
No sirens were going off and I was counting down the minutes until it was projected to arrive. The neighbors' son came home from painting and we had a chat outside since he and I both studied weather and can project patterns and formations before they hit. His sister joined us even though she was a bit freaked and lightning was flashing all over. I guess living here most of my life I'm pretty used to this type of weather, even though I hate it. After a chat and projecting cloud movement a flash of lightning hit the ground not 1/8 of a mile away from where we were standing. You could feel the heat and the flash blinded me for a few seconds. You can guess we all headed back in.
Then it arrived, the storm was to hit the square right on time and it didn't miss it's appointment let me tell you. Thankfully however, the tornado that touched down didn't hit the square, instead it touched down just north of the area out of danger for the moment. I went back out during the sirens to watch that green and black sucker move down the highways into the south side of Cook County tearing apart whatever it touched as it ripped on by. Yet another tornadic experience in my life only now for the first time shared online. Hopefully you were all as freaked as the majority of people who live here are.
I come back inside and the tornado warning is now updated to have it out of the area. Then all of a sudden not just five minutes later the sirens blast again and this time a red flash interuption warning came up signaling that the tornado is in the local area. So I bolted back outside and seen nothing, and the sirens again stopped. I went over to chat with the neighbors who decided to also take a peak at what's going on. After pointing out what I know to them I seen a wall cloud forming about two miles south west of the street we were on and surely enough the sirens hit yet again so everyone went back inside. The new warning was set that there was a tornado heading on HW 80 towards Calumet and Indiana's East Chicago. Then another updated shown that a new formation of clouds that may produce tornadoes was heading towards Frankfort square (mind you all I live a stone's throw away from there).
No sirens were going off and I was counting down the minutes until it was projected to arrive. The neighbors' son came home from painting and we had a chat outside since he and I both studied weather and can project patterns and formations before they hit. His sister joined us even though she was a bit freaked and lightning was flashing all over. I guess living here most of my life I'm pretty used to this type of weather, even though I hate it. After a chat and projecting cloud movement a flash of lightning hit the ground not 1/8 of a mile away from where we were standing. You could feel the heat and the flash blinded me for a few seconds. You can guess we all headed back in.
Then it arrived, the storm was to hit the square right on time and it didn't miss it's appointment let me tell you. Thankfully however, the tornado that touched down didn't hit the square, instead it touched down just north of the area out of danger for the moment. I went back out during the sirens to watch that green and black sucker move down the highways into the south side of Cook County tearing apart whatever it touched as it ripped on by. Yet another tornadic experience in my life only now for the first time shared online. Hopefully you were all as freaked as the majority of people who live here are.
