CHICAGO (WLS) — Strong storms are bringing heavy rain and flash flooding, along with damaging winds, to the Chicago area on Monday.
The Storm Prediction Center has much of Chicago’s North Side, as well as the northern and western suburbs, at a Level 2 risk for severe weather, with the city’s South Side and south suburbs and Northwest Indiana at a Level 1 risk for severe weather on Monday.
Strong storms started moving into the Chicago area around 3:30 p.m. and have continued to prompt severe weather warnings into the evening hours.
Strong storms started moving into the Chicago area around 3:30 p.m. and have continued to prompt severe weather warnings into the evening hours.
A Flash Flood Warning is in effect for Porter County until 12:15 a.m. Tuesday.
A Flash Flood Warning is in effect for Cook and Lake (IN) counties until 11:30 p.m. Monday.
A Flash Flood Warning is in effect for Will County until 11:15 p.m. Monday.
A Flood Watch is in effect for Boone, Cook, DeKalb, DuPage, Will, Grundy, Kane, Kankakee, Kendall, LaSalle, Lake (IL), McHenry, Winnebago, Lake (IN) and Porter counties until 4 a.m. Tuesday.
A Tornado Warning was is in effect for Kane County until 4:30 p.m. Monday. It has since expired.
There are ground stops at O’Hare and Midway airports due to the storms.
Monday’s 7:05 p.m. game between the Chicago Cubs and Milwaukee Brewers at Wrigley Field has been postponed.
The makeup game is scheduled as the first game of a split doubleheader Tuesday with the makeup game scheduled to begin at 1:20 p.m. The originally scheduled game on Tuesday will take place, as scheduled, at 7:05 p.m.
A thunderstorm moving through Lockport on Monday evening made for an impressive lightning show as high winds and intense wind hit the south suburb.
Strong storms are bringing heavy rain and flash flooding, along with damaging winds, to the Chicago area on Monday.
Video taken off of Oneida Drive captured what an earlier round of rain left behind: inches of water covering neighborhood streets.
And just as those floodwaters receded, another heavy round of rain, lightning and strong winds came through once again. Thunder roared in the already waterlogged area.
And over DeKalb County, storms wreaked havoc in Genoa.
Crews were there tending to downed power lines and branches, including a large tree that came down.
Heavy rain in that area flooded streets and lawns as residents had their water pumps working overtime.
The storms made their way east through Chicago, where the downtown area was hit with a downpour.
This comes after heavy rain and flooding hit parts of the Chicago area over the weekend, with some areas getting more than 6 inches of rain.
On Monday night, people across the Chicagoland area are hoping to dry out and assess the aftermath of this latest round of rain.
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