Jul 7, 2016
During the late afternoon of Thursday, July 7th, scattered storms developed across northern Illinois and slowly moved east-northeast. As the storms grew, their slow movement helped to produce locally heavy rainfall. The Doppler Radar estimated rainfall maps show the localized nature of the heavy rainfall. In addition, there were a handful of funnel cloud reports from the storms due to large scale rotation in the atmosphere. Concentrated storm rotation for tornadoes was not favored.
Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 648409). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.
This event is one of many recorded floods in Kane County. See the full FEMA flood zone map, NFIP claim totals, and disaster history for the area.