Rare dust storm warning for Chicago area from gusty storms 08:25. A rare dust storm warning was issued for much of the Chicago area Friday night as fast-moving wall of dust blanketed the city and ...

And for a dust storm to affect Chicago is even more uncommon.” The last dust storm to hit Chicago occurred on May 31, 1985 — and the last one of this kind of magnitude in Chicago happened ...

Time lapse video of rare dust storm blowing through Chicago 00:45 "This looks like a bad thunderstorm coming through, but you can tell that it's just not a thunderstorm. It's dust.

John Dwyer coordinates emergency management in Champaign County, Illinois. He’s seeing a lot more weather extremes, from ...

Chicago faced a huge dust storm on Friday. The National Weather Service issued a dust storm warning. Winds reached 60 mph, causing near-zero visibility. This event is rare for the region. Severe ...

Chicago was last affected by a significant dust storm during the Dust Bowl era of the 1930s, specifically on May 10, 1934, according to Rafal Ogorek, a forecaster with the Weather Service.

A rare dust storm swept in from the southwest and enveloped the Chicago metropolitan area Friday evening, darkening the sky and creating eerie images. Visibility dropped to near zero and winds ...

Chicago experienced its first dust storm since 1934 on Friday night, ... The rare storm also posed new obstacles for the local National Weather Service office because it wasn’t the type of storm ...

Rare dust storm warning issued across Chicago as strong winds kick up parched farmland The National Weather Service issued its second-ever dust storm warning Friday, as 60 mph winds carried dust ...

The National Weather Service's Chicago office confirmed it was only the second time in its history that it has issued a dust storm warning. The first time was on May 7, 2023, but that warning did ...

The last dust storm to hit Chicago occurred on May 31, 1985 — and the last one of this kind of magnitude in Chicago happened during the Dust Bowl in the early to mid-1930s.