Alert Details
FFWLOT The National Weather Service in Chicago has issued a * Flash Flood Warning for... Northeastern Cook County in northeastern Illinois... * Until 830 PM CDT. * At 518 PM CDT, Doppler radar indicated thunderstorms producing rainfall rates of up to 2 to 3 inches per hour lifting northward across the warned area. Flash flooding is expected to begin shortly after the onset of heavy rain. HAZARD...Flash flooding. SOURCE...Radar. IMPACT...Rapid-onset flooding of creeks, streams, drainage ditches, streets, underpasses, low-lying areas, and other poor drainage areas. * Some locations that will experience flash flooding include... Chicago, Cicero, Evanston, Skokie, Des Plaines, Berwyn, Oak Park, Ohare Airport, Park Ridge, Niles, Austin, Irving Park, South Lawndale, West Town, Lake View, Lincoln Park, West Ridge, Bridgeport, Chicago Loop and Melrose Park.