The shores of Lake Michigan were slammed by severe thunderstorms that birthed damaging tornadoes, large hail, and wind gusts reaching hurricane speeds in the middle of the day on July 27.
A cluster of extreme weather was moving east-southeast, scraping across the shoreline from Green Bay, Wisconsin, through Chicago, Illinois, and stretching across the lake to Michigan’s western shore and inland from Traverse City to Grand Rapids. Northern reaches of Indiana, including South Bend to Fort Wayne, were also impacted.
The Weather Prediction Center also warned, “A supercell located over northeast Illinois will develop south/southeast across the southern greater Chicago metro vicinity” around 1:30 p.m. ET….