Areas of Severe Thunderstorms and Excessive Rainfall Through This Weekend

Severe thunderstorms which can bring large hail, damaging winds, and isolated tornadoes will be possible over parts of the central U.S. through this weekend. Thunderstorms with heavy to excessive rainfall moving from Texas into the mid-Mississippi Valley through this weekend may produce areas of flooding. Read More >

This page serves as a launching pad to NWS preparedness information. There is NWS-wide content available at the robust weather.gov/safety that we highly recommend. Some further preparedness content localized for northern Illinois, including Chicago, and northwest Indiana can be found below.