On 13 Apr 2006 22:06:51 -0700, "Jay Honeck"
wrote:

So I was at our airport commission meeting tonight when the tornado
sirens went off. We had noticed the skies becoming black, but were all
too wrapped up in talk of paving taxiways to pay much heed.

I live in Chicago area, and the storms headed this way after Iowa
City. No where near as much devastation, just a lot of lightning and
a bit of hail.

That was a very odd strorm. It was influenced by a stationary front
sweeping across the midwest, but the activity was very localized. All
the cells were concentrated within an almost perfect circle of 50nm.
No rain anywhere else. Plus the visible satellite pictured showed CLR
conditions everywhere minus the 50nm circle. Quite odd.