This is the map that was on Tom Skilling's weather page in the Chicago Tribune this morning (it's hard to see but it explains a lot to me). Source: Frank Wachowski, National Weather Service Archives.
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Thursday, June 23, 2011 - On Tuesday night, this was the weather situation in our area. When I first saw the Weather Channel right around 8 p.m., that orange blob on the map on the left side was bright RED. Plus, there was a bow echo and they mentioned the words "RAIN WRAPPED TORNADOES."

That night, it was raining and getting dark, so you couldn't see the clouds. But, in this morning's Daily Herald, I found this little tidbit:

A certified weather spotter reported a tornado in Yorkville about 8 p.m. Tuesday, and that a funnel cloud - but no tornado - was reported over Sugar Grove at 8:05 p.m. near Route 47 and Interstate 88.

Okay, I can drive to that last location in about 5 minutes. In fact, we left Blackberry Inn just before 8 p.m. Tuesday night. It was just sprinkling a little bit when we left there and by the time we got home 5 minutes later, the skies opened up and it poured buckets of rain.

This could have been a whole lot worse. Most of the people who were interviewed on the news yesterday, said that they definitely thought of the people in Joplin who lost everything after the storm was gone and they were outside surveying the damage.

They may have lost some trees, but at least they still had their home. Wow! This has been one crazy winter, spring and now SUMMER! Yikes! see ya later, djb