Tornado Warning in ORD
 

ORD is a mess right now, and NWS just announced a tornado warning for Cook County, where ORD is located.

This picture is from flightaware as of 7:54pm CDT.

http://flightaware.com/live/airport_...1bca62d4a899ab

I notice some flights in Indiana are making circles right now. Hopefully they don't have to divert....

Good luck guys.

now tornado warning for Franklin Park-- it's about 2 miles from ORD

Looks like the tornado is just about over the field right now.

Tornado sirens went off here (well east of ORD). I just got back from the basement.

That's an awesome picture. Shows the effects of the storm cell perfectly. There's a couple of flights in there which must have had some pretty strong turbulence!

off topic somewhat-- i locked myself out of my apt. when i went into the basement cuz of the tornado warnings. Of course the other half is out for dinner.

I love that the next thing you decide to do is post on FT. :D

Hope you get back in soon!

Holy severe thunderstorm Batman! The weather guys out here are starting to go nuts...I may have to disappear soon...:eek:

The power outlets at baggage claim 6 work but they are going fast. :)

Power came back on about 20 minutes ago. I was getting sick of using the BBerry! :D

There was just a little blurb on our local news (AZO)...they're diverting some to GRR, where the power is out and they're running on generator power.

View from near downtown Chicago:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-rWD1z5_Vs

On the United board there was mention of possible tornado sightings in Lincoln Park and/or Navy Pear. Anyone confirm that? (our old house was on Wellington when we lived in Chicago).

I've heard of a "navy bean" but never a "navy pear." :D :D

I think most of the city is fine. A few fallen trees...that's about it. I've seen a lot worse.

"Navy bean" is what we'd get if a good seiche washed the Anish Kapor sculpture out into the lake.

It was a mess at ORD last night. After the tornado warning another storm blew thru. We didn't make it to ALB until 3am! Nothing like a couple of hours sleep before going to work.

Our tornadoe sirens went off last night in Old Town. Very creepy. Result was alot of downed trees.

Steve

Wow! I cannot believe it what happening in ORD last night. I have been heard the Cubbies games has been delayed due to severe weather in ORD areas. I noticed that I saw the lightning were strike in downtown Chicago. I have been spoke from my friends on the phone last night. I knows some of those people were evacuated from the game due to severe thunderstorm in the Wrigley Field. The umpire has been stopped the games. The players were went back inside the clubhouse while the weather is gone away for several hour. Hopefully everything will be alright for awhile. I won't worry about my friends who lives in Chicago.

Check out this gorgeous photo from Monday's storm:

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/08/05/chi...orm/index.html

(in case the link changes, the one I'm referring to is the lightning strike on the skyline by John Sheehan)

Makes my photo look kinda lousy by comparison.

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pi...80d&id=2411430

Wow! It's mostly impressive what happened the storm were hit in Chicago skyline. I saw the TV while we just came back from D-Backs game by few night ago. We already heard what happened in Chicago Cubs has been delayed due to severe thunderstorm.

Thanks for sharing me these photos that I saw the lightning were hit the tower. I was disappointed what happened over there by few night ago. I have been spoke with my friends from ORD. He told me that happening that mean it was hit in the downtown Chicago. Luckily, they didn't get some extremely damaged the tornadoes didn't touchdown in downtown Chicago. Hopefully they will expect to clean it up the trees and near the house, too.