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NWS Update From The Severe Weather Event on July 15th 2024
Summary:
During the evening hours of July 15, a well-organized and long-lived complex of thunderstorms rolled across Iowa, Illinois and parts of Indiana. Widespread damaging winds of 60 to locally 100 mph were observed within the line, especially from eastern Iowa, northern Illinois, and central Illinois. In addition, at least 35 tornadoes, with at least 24 occurring in the NWS Chicago County Warning Area.
With 24 tornadoes, this storm breaks the previous daily record for tornadoes in our forecast area (June 30th, 2014 “Double Derecho” and March 31, 2023 Outbreak). See the tornadoes tab for more information.
Additional tornadoes may be confirmed over the coming month, as we continue to analyze high resolution and satellite and radar data.
What is a derecho?
Derechoes develop in environments with very warm and moist air at the surface, relatively cooler air aloft, and strong winds at the upper-levels of the atmosphere. Northern Illinois and Indiana are within a region where derechoes are common, with an average of 1 derecho every year. Derechoes as strong as the one that impacted the area on July 15 have an occurrance interval of once every 5 to 10 years.
Wind speeds in derechoes often exceeds 100 mph in hardest-hit areas. Some of the strongest derechoes have produced wind speeds estimated to exceed 120 mph.
A derecho produces a swath of particularly damaging thunderstorm winds (specifically, wind gusts of at least 58 mph along most of its length with several well-separated 75 mph or greater gusts) over an area at least 250 miles long. The majority of winds are not caused by tornadoes within the line, but tornadoes are common within derechoes.
1.) Byron Tornado
![[Location] Tornado Summary Graphic](https://www.weather.gov/images/lot/pastevents/2024/07_15/Byron.png)
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| Summary:
An EF-0 tornado tracked through Byron, producing tree damage across town and blowing roofing material off of a car wash. |
2.) Davis Junction Tornado
![[Location] Tornado Summary Graphic](https://www.weather.gov/images/lot/pastevents/2024/07_15/DavisJunction.png)
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| Summary:
An EF-0 tornado tracked through the north side of Davis Junction, producing a corridor of tree damage. |
3.) Southern Winnebago County Tornado
![[Location] Tornado Summary Graphic](https://www.weather.gov/images/lot/pastevents/2024/07_15/SouthernWinnebagoCounty.png)
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| Summary:
A tornado tracked for approximately 1.2 miles along Montague Road southwest of Rockford, causing damage to corn crops, trees, and power lines.
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Good afternoon! We continue to pore through photos, videos, satellite, etc. from the 7/14-15 severe events. We’ve seen your comments too, and are incorporating them into our database – we’re just unable to respond to everything.
For some context: we have over 1,500 damage points which we’re working to quality control, and this takes a considerable amount of time as we have to cross reference times, addresses, viewing angles, etc.
We are planning on a big push of additional information on Monday afternoon, once we get a chance to finalize the latest data we’ve processed. Thank you all for your patience throughout the past week!
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