
Illinois Hailstone Smashes State Record
A massive hailstone from a March severe weather outbreak has officially been confirmed as the largest ever recorded in Illinois.
A Weather Alert has been issued for a nearby area. While your current location is outside of the impacted area, please stay alert and monitor weather conditions. # HEADLINE -------------------- A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL IMPACT LOGAN AND NORTHEASTERN WELD COUNTIES UNTIL 10 PM MDT # SUMMARY -------------------- At 914 PM MDT, Doppler radar was tracking a line of strong thunderstorms extending from near Peetz to near Willard, moving southeast at 15 mph. # DETAILS -------------------- HAZARD Wind gusts of 50 to 55 mph and half inch size hail. SOURCE Radar indicated. IMPACT Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is possible. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE Sterling, Iliff, Peetz, Crook, North Sterling Reservoir, Padroni, Logan Corners, Atwood, Westplains, Proctor, Pawnee Pass, Twin Buttes and Reiradon Hill. ISSUED AT Saturday, September 5, 2026 at 9:14 PM MDT ISSUED BY National Weather Service Denver CO HEADER Special Weather Statement # PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS -------------------- Monitor the weather situation closely and be alert for threatening weather conditions. # AREAS AFFECTED -------------------- Logan County CO, Northeast Weld County CO
Closest strike: 0.94 miles Stay Alert! Remain in a safe area until there has been no lightning within 10 miles of this location for 30 minutes. Please be aware that lightning activity can remain high even when a storm is moving away from your location. Even if rain has stopped, do not leave your safe area until WeatherBug indicates that lightning is more than 10 miles away from this selected location. IF OUTDOORS Avoid water, high ground, and open spaces. Avoid all metal objects including electric wires, fences, and machinery. Find a safe area in a building or in a fully enclosed vehicle with the windows completely shut. Unsafe places include underneath canopies, small picnic or rain shelters, convertibles, or near trees. IF INDOORS Avoid water and stay away from doors and windows. Avoid using a hard line telephone. Take off headphones. Turn off, unplug, and stay away from appliances, computers, power tools, and TV sets. Lightning may strike exterior electric and phone lines, inducing shocks to inside equipment.
There is a Marginal Severe Storm Risk for your location. Continue reading for today's outlook from the National Weather Service's Storm Prediction Center. -------------------- National Severe Storm Outlook THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHEAST COLORADO INTO PARTS OF WESTERN NEBRASKA...INCLUDING THE PANHANDLE SUMMARY Widely scattered occurrences of large hail and severe wind gusts are expected into tonight over northeast Colorado into parts of western Nebraska, including the Panhandle. Isolated occurrences of large hail and damaging winds remain possible overnight across a broader portion of the northern and central Plains. Damaging wind potential is expected to diminish within the next couple of hours over portions of Kentucky, Georgia, and South Carolina. Northern and Central Plains Separate clusters of thunderstorms, including supercells, are ongoing this evening over the NE Panhandle into northeast CO ahead of a weak mid-level disturbance moving through WY and north-central CO. The 00Z LBF sounding sampled relatively steep lapse rates with MLCAPE of around 2500 J/kg along with a vertically veering wind profile with around 30 kt of deep-layer shear. As such, expect the supercell threat to persist for the next hour or two, prior to storms merging into a larger complex along a nocturnally strengthening low-level jet. Large hail up to two inches will be the main hazard in the near-term; however, the potential for severe wind gusts will become more prevalent if an organized cold pool can evolve. Elsewhere, storms are widely scattered across the Dakotas with the 00Z ABR sounding indicating a moderately unstable, but capped air mass for surface-based parcels. Additional, elevated storms appear possible overnight along the low-level jet axis with a risk for isolated occurrence of large hail and damaging wind gusts. Central Georgia into southern South Carolina Widely scattered thunderstorms are ongoing this evening from south of Atlanta into southern SC, along an outflow boundary remnant from storms earlier today. Isolated occurrences of damaging wind gusts remain possible for the next hour or two before low-level lapse rates begin to weaken with the loss of daytime heating. Kentucky A small cluster of thunderstorms has recently intensified south of the OH River, east of Owensboro, in the vicinity of a weak surface boundary, and ahead of a weak mid-level disturbance approaching the area from the north. Regional 00Z soundings indicate the air mass remains moderately unstable with around 30 kt of deep-layer shear. The ongoing storms will remain capable of strong wind gusts for the next hour or so before the boundary layer begins to stabilize.
Pollen Index: 10.1 Pollen Level: high Predominant Pollen: Ragweed, Sagebrush/Sage and Chenopods. Concentration of pollen grains in the air for Sunday will be unchanged in the very high range. This is a result of stable humidity. Constant and seasonally normal weather conditions tend to stabilize pollen concentrations in the outdoor air.











