More than two dozen tornadoes touched down across the Chicago area last Sunday and Monday nights, according to NWS.
The numbers are pretty remarkable: The National Weather Service confirmed, more than two dozen tornadoes touched down across the Chicago area last Sunday and Monday.woman was killed when a tree fell onto her home.According to the National Weather Service , there is typically an average of 50 tornadoes across Illinois per year.
"You might remember on Sunday and Monday we had a lot of moisture, and it was very humid and very hot. When we combine that with an atmosphere that upstairs is relatively cold and dry, we generate something called instability which you can think of as gasoline for the atmosphere. And on that day, we had very, very high amounts of instability.
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