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Heavy Rainfall Continues in South Florida, Southern Rockies, and the Northern Plains

A stationary front will continue to bring heavy to excessive rainfall to South Florida into Saturday with localized and urban flooding possible. Heavy to excessive rainfall is forecast through Saturday over the southern Rockies into the northern Plains. Instances of flash flooding are possible, especially in higher terrain and burn scars. Read More >

Overview

An increasingly unstable airmass combined with an upper-level trough to produce isolated to scattered severe thunderstorms across northeast and east-central Illinois and northwest Indiana during the late afternoon and early evening of May 9th, 2018. Sporadic wind damage was reported across 1) the western suburbs and north side of Chicago and 2) east-central Illinois into northwest Indiana.

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Radar loop from 4pm - 8pm CDT May 9th, 2018.
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