Intense. Have not seen one that bad that lasted for that long in a longtime. Visibility was between 20-50’ and it lasted for a good hour or more from start to finish.

I think they called it a haboob

Your car, house, streets, pools, what a mess cleaning up. And it can't be good for HVAC systems sucking all that dust and sand in.

I called my daughter after the videos popped up on internet and they were out on the porch, enjoying the rain. The one earlier uprooted her very large bougainvillea which is in a very sheltered spot. It is replanted and doing fine though.

These things have been more common this year. Drought.

I learned that haboob is a term used in Sudan for a particular formation pattern in the winds that produces a different type of duststorm. A meteorologist in AZ researched and determined that the same patterns were in these particularly awful sandstorms. Both the Sudanese and the Arizona types were followed by monsoon rains, so he named them haboobs. Short duration but that style of rain.

Couple of years ago a weatherman in Lubbock TX referred to a giant duststorm out there as a haboob and you would have thought the world had come to an end. Those panhandlers were irate that he used a "terrorist, towelhead, A-rab" term.

...in the middle of June. Nothing like this is the far northwest Chicago suburbs.