HE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHICAGO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
SOUTHEASTERN COOK COUNTY IN NORTHEAST ILLINOIS...
CENTRAL WILL COUNTY IN NORTHEAST ILLINOIS...
NORTHEASTERN JASPER COUNTY IN NORTHWEST INDIANA...
LAKE COUNTY IN NORTHWEST INDIANA...
PORTER COUNTY IN NORTHWEST INDIANA...

* UNTIL 915 AM CDT/1015 AM EDT/

* AT 819 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DESTRUCTIVE WINDS
IN EXCESS OF 70 MPH. THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE
EXTENDING FROM 12 MILES EAST OF WINTHROP HARBOR TO 18 MILES
NORTHEAST OF KENILWORTH TO 13 MILES NORTHEAST OF MONTROSE HARBOR TO
BLUE ISLAND TO 6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MANHATTAN...AND MOVING EAST AT
65 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
FLOSSMOOR...DOLTON...OLYMPIA FIELDS...PEOTONE...PARK FOREST...
BURNHAM...UNIVERSITY PARK...GLENWOOD...CHICAGO HEIGHTS...CALUMET
CITY...WHITING...STEGER...LANSING...HAMMOND...LYNWOOD...
CHICAGO...MUNSTER...HIGHLAND...GRIFFITH AND SCHERERVILLE.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 60 MILES PER
HOUR...LARGE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR
PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME
OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DO NOT DRIVE INTO
AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.