We did not see a lot of serious time recently in the United States, but the country was not as lucky during last August.
On August 28, 1990, 35 years ago today, an F5 tornado ratified two counties in the northern Illinois in the far southwest of Chicagoland.
The Twister has torn a 16-mile path through certain parts of the cities of Plainfield and Crystal Lawns this afternoon. Twenty-nine were killed and 350 were injured.
This violent tornado was up to half a million wide and inflicted $ 160 million in damage, 470 houses destroyed and 1,000 damaged, according to the National Weather Service.
Aside from its high -end intensity, this tornado was unique in two ways.
First of all, according to the NWS, it was masked in low clouds and rain, so no video or photos known to the real tornado was taken.
Second, the activity of lightning at the same time with a strangely high fraction of positively loaded strikes, a reduction in lightning lightning on the ground when the tornado was formed, then a grouping of lightning near the tornado at its maximum intensity, was the subject of a fascinating study published three years after the Tornado.
An aerial view of the Tornado F5 damage path by Plainfield, Illinois, August 28, 1990.
(Noaa / It-Romeoville, Illinois)
Jonathan Erdman has been a senior meteorologist at Weather.com and has covered national and international weather conditions since 1996. The extreme and bizarre time is his favorite subjects. Tidy up Bluesky,, X (formerly Twitter) And Facebook.
