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Flood — La Salle, IL

Feb 22, 2022

Warm air spread across the area along with heavy rain and thunderstorms during the early morning of February 22nd. Some of the thunderstorms produced small hail. A cold front then moved into northern Illinois bringing freezing rain to far northern Illinois. The heavy rain caused localized flooding.||Ice accumulation amounts from the freezing rain included 0.15 inches in Woodstock; 0.10 inches at McCullom Lake, Towers Lake, near Lakewood and three miles northeast of Woodstock; 0.09 inches at W

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 1010637). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

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