March 27th, 1991 Lemont, IL tornado

[Danny Neal]

I was wondering if there was any way to get archived data (I.E radar/satellite) for this day. I haven't seen anything about this day anywhere. http://youtube.com/watch?v=YIAatv3GM9w - This hits home because this video is basically taken from my neighborhood when I was there. Was only 3 years old, I want to say this is the remnant of the F3 that hit Lemont. Any sources or points in the right direction would be great!

 

[rdale]

http://has.ncdc.noaa.gov would be the first spot to check, the official NWS archives.

 

[Dennis Sherrod]

Danny,
Look at this link. It should get you going to what you need.

http://www4.ncdc.noaa.gov/cgi-win/wwcgi.dll?wwevent~storms

 

[David Draun]

We had a nice supercell come right up over Schaumburg that afternoon. I remember walking out into my backyard and seeing a swirling cloudbase with a funnel directly over my head. I was in 5th grade at the time. Then quater and golf-ball size hail came down as a new storm formed next to it.

 

[Danny Neal]

Thanks for the point in the right directions fellas'

 

[Terry Kollmeyer]

You can also try Wikipedia. I found a gold mine of information in regards to atmospheric conditions that existed on the 8/28/90 F5 that hit Plainfield, Il. My shop is right along US 30 where it was the strongest. I still have yet to see any photos of that storm.

 

[Danny Neal]

You can also try Wikipedia. I found a gold mine of information in regards to atmospheric conditions that existed on the 8/28/90 F5 that hit Plainfield, Il. My shop is right along US 30 where it was the strongest. I still have yet to see any photos of that storm.

I saw ONE photo of Plainfield(couldn't even say for sure it was of the tornado)....all it was was a BLACK MASS of rain and clouds, and the photographer said the telephone poles along US 30 were vibrating like tuning forks. I wish I can remember where I saw it....I want to say an old archived newspaper...

 

[David Draun]

I saw ONE photo of Plainfield(couldn't even say for sure it was of the tornado)....all it was was a BLACK MASS of rain and clouds, and the photographer said the telephone poles along US 30 were vibrating like tuning forks. I wish I can remember where I saw it....I want to say an old archived newspaper...

That photo was taken by NIU Meteorologist, Gilbert Sebenste. It was of the wall cloud after the tornado had lifted. He is on Stormtrack on occasion. The photo I believe was on the old Stormchaser Homepage before it became StormTrack.

 

[Danny Neal]

That photo was taken by NIU Meteorologist, Gilbert Sebenste. It was of the wall cloud after the tornado had lifted. He is on Stormtrack on occasion. The photo I believe was on the old Stormchaser Homepage before it became StormTrack.

Ahhh yes that is probably right. In this day and age if that happened you'd have 10000 videos within hours......I am sure SOMEWHERE someone has an image or short VHS of what may have happened, but have never released it. Just like it took 17 years for that gentleman to post the video I linked above.