1 heat, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Chicago, IL wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at May 30, 5:45 AM CST, 2 hours 15 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHICAGO/ROMEOVILLE IL 645 AM CDT TUE MAY 30 2006 .DISCUSSION FOR MORNING ZONES/GRIDS... 415 AM CDT WITH LTL CHANGE IN THERMAL PROFILE OF AIRMASS IN PLACE OVR REGION FM MON...EXPECT TS TO BLOSSOM AGAIN AS CONVECTIVE TEMP IN LO-MID 80S REACHED MIDDAY. MAJORITY OF TS EARLY THIS MORNING ALONG SFC BNDRY EXTENDING FM WRN U.P. OF MI SSWRD INTO CNTRL PLAINS WHERE CONTD LLVL FORCING OCCURING. CLUSTERS OF TS ERN MO AND SWRN AR ONGOING AS DISTURBANCES RIDE UP WRN SIDE OF UPR RIDGE HOLDING OVR ERN NOAM. NRN EXTENT OF RDG SLOLY FLATTENS AND MOVS TO CNDN MARITIMES BY WED EVE AS UPR LO OVR SASK AND MAN CONTS TO LIFT NEWRD ACROSS HUSDON BAY. WITH SRN PORTION OF RDG REMAINING OVR THE DEEP S AND ERN GULF THE CDFNT WILL ONLY GRADUALLY SINK SWRD FM THE UPR MIDWEST AND GRTLKS...AND FINALLLY THRU NRN IL AND NW IND BY WED EVE. TSRA EXPECTED TO PERSIST TONIGHT AND WED AS BNDRY MOVS INTO AREA AND PROVIDES CONTD FOCUS FOR RENEWED TSRA DVLPMNT ALONG WITH OUTFLOWS. WHILE FRONT EXPECTED TO BE S OF FA FOR WED NIGHT MODELS SHOW UPR TROF AMPLIFYING AS IT MOVS FM NRN PLAINS INTO UPR MIDWEST AND MAY FORCE SOME SHRA ON COOL SIDE OF BNDRY. THIS TROF MOVS INTO THE WRN GRTLKS DURG THE DAY THU BUT ATTM FEEL LLVLS WILL HAVE DRIED OUT SO POP ONLY IN SLGT CHC RANGE. TRS && .AVIATION... FOR 12Z TAFS...AS DIURNAL HEATING STARTS THIS MORNING SHOULD SEE SOMETHING SIMILAR TO YESTERDAYS EVENTS - CU DEVELOPING BY MID MORNING AND THICKENING TO A BROKEN DECK. FORCING FOR AFTERNOON THUNDERSTORMS MAY BE A SHOT OF PVA INDICATED AFTER 18Z IN THE MODELS. ALTHOUGH PLACEMENT OF MAX UVV DIFFERS FROM MODEL TO MODEL, EFFECT WILL BE FOR THUNDER TO DEVELOP IN NORHTERN ILLINOIS DURING THE COURSE OF THE AFTERNOON. THOUGH GRADIENT IS SOUTHERLY WIND FIELD IS VERY LIGHT THIS MORNING. HAVE OPTED FOR L/V WINDS THROUGH EARLY MORNING WHEN GRADIENT SHOULD HELP GIVE SOME DIRECTION AND SPEED TO WINDS. RS && .LOT WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... .IL...NONE. .IN...NONE. .LM...NONE. &&
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHICAGO/ROMEOVILLE IL 430 AM CDT TUE MAY 30 2006 ILZ003>006-008-010>014-019>022-023-032-033-039-INZ001-002-010-011- 019-312200- WINNEBAGO-BOONE-MCHENRY-LAKE IL-OGLE-LEE-DE KALB-KANE-DU PAGE-COOK- LA SALLE-KENDALL-GRUNDY-WILL-KANKAKEE-LIVINGSTON-IROQUOIS-FORD- LAKE IN-PORTER-NEWTON-JASPER-BENTON- 430 AM CDT WED MAY 31 2006 THIS PORTION OF THE HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST ILLINOIS...AND NORTHWEST INDIANA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS TODAY ACROSS THE AREA...WITH THUNDERSTORMS BECOMING LIKELY SOUTH OF A PONTIAC TO WHEATFIELD LINE THIS AFTERNOON. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT. THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS NORTH OF I-80 THURSDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE STORMS...WITH THE POTENTIAL FOR LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. THERE IS ANOTHER CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED TODAY. && COMPLETE FORECAST INFORMATION IS AVAILABLE ON THE NWS CHICAGO WEBPAGE: WEATHER.GOV/CHICAGO LMZ740>745-766-312200- WINTHROP HARBOR IL TO MICHIGAN CITY IN- LAKE MICHIGAN- 430 AM CDT WED MAY 31 2006 THIS PORTION OF THE HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE ILLINOIS AND INDIANA WATERS OF LAKE MICHIGAN. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS TODAY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT. THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS THURSDAY EVENING...AND AGAIN SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT. && COMPLETE FORECAST INFORMATION IS AVAILABLE ON THE NWS CHICAGO WEBPAGE: WEATHER.GOV/CHICAGO
1 heat. Local standard time, as filed.
A 35 year old man died from heat stress in Chicago. High temperatures reached the lower 90s on May 28th and 29th and near 90 on May 30th.
As the offices recorded each death: direct deaths were caused by the weather itself, indirect ones by something it set in motion.
| Event | Date | Age | Sex | Where | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Heat, Cook | 2006-05-30 | 35 | Male | Permanent Home | Direct |
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Illinois in 2006Every state in 2006This day in weather historyWarnings in Illinois, May 2006
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5510171.