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Fast-moving particulate tempest sweeps crossed Chicago country
A time-lapse video shows however rapidly the Chicago skyline disappeared arsenic the partition of particulate blew through.
"This looks similar a atrocious thunderstorm coming through, but you tin archer that it's conscionable not a thunderstorm. It's dust. It's consecutive up dust," Thomas Jean-Mastej said.
The National Weather Service said it was the effect of 60 to 70 mph winds that blew implicit adust farmlands, collecting particulate into the air, and blowing it done the Chicago area.
The particulate swept implicit Interstate 55, forcing immoderate drivers to propulsion implicit and not instrumentality the chance, particularly aft particulate tempest alerts deed their phones.
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Jean-Mastej pulled disconnected and took retired his telephone to grounds the uncommon sight.
"I was heading home, and the alert came up connected my phone, and past my hubby texted me, and past helium called me. He's like, 'Get disconnected the interstate close now. It's coming.' I was like, 'I tin spot it connected the South Side,'" helium said.
The particulate tempest blew done a precocious schoolhouse graduation ceremonial successful acold southwest suburban Morris.
A particulate tempest blows done Morris, Illinois, during a precocious schoolhouse graduation ceremonial connected May 16, 2025
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When the particulate tempest hit, visibility successful immoderate spots rapidly dropped to zero, and those lasting extracurricular could consciousness the debris stroke successful the wind.
"You tin consciousness it. You tin consciousness the ungraded successful your eyes, and everything similar that. You truly person to person glasses connected oregon something," Tom Nichin said.
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Planes coming into Midway International Airport made their mode done the particulate tempest arsenic a crushed halt halted incoming flights for astir an hour, portion Chicago country expressways were much backed up than accustomed due to the fact that drivers recovered themselves driving close into the partition of dust.
"It's similar thing retired of the past books, you know? Unbelievable," Nichin said.
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According to the National Weather Service, it was lone the 2nd clip their Chicago bureau has issued a particulate tempest warning, and the archetypal clip specified a informing included the metropolis itself.
Dust tempest warnings are much communal successful the agrarian parts of cardinal and confederate Illinois.
"You don't deliberation that you would spot this successful the city," Jean-Mastej said.
For astir areas deed by the particulate storm, skies cleared up wrong 30 to 45 minutes.
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Jermont Terry joined the CBS 2 squad successful October 2019. He's calved and raised connected Chicago's South Side. He's blessed to instrumentality location to study connected his assemblage aft 18 years of uncovering stories crossed the country.
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