High Wind in Lake, Illinois

Power lines were downed and a tree was downed onto a house southwest of Lake Barrington.

A line of showers and embedded thunderstorms moved across northern Illinois during the late morning and early afternoon of April 27th. On the back side of this precipitation, a wake low developed, producing wind gusts between 50 and 70 mph, which blew down trees, tree limbs and power lines. Scattered thunderstorms moved across east central Illinois during the evening of April 27th producing isolated wind damage.