Dust storms can occur anywhere there’s loose soil and wind. Parts of Kansas, Missouri, New Mexico and Texas have also ...

Last Saturday’s storm started near Bloomington, Illinois, before traveling northeastward. It was the first such storm of this ...

Startling images and videos captured a wild scene in parts of Illinois where massive dust clouds could be seen as warnings ...

A tall, imposing plume of agricultural sediment blew from central Illinois and over dry farmland to envelop Chicago, dropping visibility to near zero last week during a type of dust storm mostly ...

A large dust storm swept through Illinois Friday, sparking the first-ever dust storm warning for Chicago as it led to ...

May 16th, 2025 continues to be an interesting weather day and is keeping meteorologists like me on their toes. Earlier in the ...

Day turned to night in northwest Indiana and north-central Illinois on Friday as a rare dust storm shrouded the skies.

A massive dust storm was racing toward Chicago and the rest of northern Illinois, putting motorists and people with ...

Now that the dust has settled, many are wondering just how and why such an out-of-the-ordinary weather phenomenon happened.

A dust storm hit Normal, Illinois, causing the NWS to issue a warning for McLean County. Powerful winds reached 60 mph, ...

The advisories are issued when convectively driven dust reduces visibilities to 1 mile or less, but greater than a quarter ...

open image in gallery A historic dust storm hit Illinois last weekend. The haboob may have sent lead, pesticides and other worrying toxins into downtown Chicago skies (Eric Lenning/NWS Chicago ...