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Flooding and Rip Current Concerns from Chantal; Lingering Flood Watches in Central Texas

Chantal is now a Tropical Depression. Flash flood concerns continue across portions of central North Carolina into Monday. Life-threatening surf and rip currents conditions are expected to continue at beaches along the U.S. East Coast from northeastern Florida to the Mid-Atlantic states during the next day or so. Flood Watches and recovery continue across central Texas. Read More >

Overview

Scattered thunderstorms quickly became numerous along the I-88 corridor on the early afternoon of Friday, July 29th.  These were extremely slow moving, leading to large totals in a short amount of time.  With antecedent wet conditions, this rainfall brought flash flooding to DeKalb, Kane, DuPage, and Cook Counties.  Some of the flooding persisted into the day after.  In addition, the DuPage River at Bolingbrook reached a top 10 crest in its ~20 year period of record.

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Rainfall Estimated from Bias-Corrected Radar
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