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Flooding Possible in the Southwest U.S.; Coastal Storm to Impact the East

Heavy to excessive rainfall is expected today into Wednesday over New Mexico into far west Texas. Flash flooding and debris flows in wildfire burn areas will be possible. A strong coastal storm will develop off the Mid-Atlantic coast Wednesday, intensifying toward southern New England this weekend. Significant coastal flooding, strong rip currents, and beach erosion from high surf expected. Read More >

Overview

Fast Facts:

A line of storms traversed across northern Illinois and northwest Indiana between 3-8 pm CDT, with generally two more focused areas of wind.

The first was a line segment through the following counties:  Ogle, northern DeKalb, northern Kane, southern McHenry, far northern Cook, and southern Lake.  This produced concentrated significant wind damage in Huntley and adjacent areas.

A second one moved across far southern Lee County and along the far northern LaSalle County border.  This weakened slightly before entering the far southern Chicago metro, but still had 40+ mph wind gusts. Part of this area re-intensified in northwest Indiana across northern Lake and Porter Counties.

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