2,067 first-hand accounts of flood events in Illinois, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
During the late afternoon and early evening, multiple storms produced large hail and very heavy rainfall along the I-80 corridor, including across the far southern and southwestern Chicago metro area.
Read the full account →Multiple rounds of heavy rain producing storms moved across the region during the day and evening of June 15th, with an especially intense area of extreme rainfall rates during the mid-afternoon through early evening centered on the I-88 and I-290 corridors from the IL/IA state…
Read the full account →After a morning complex of non-severe storms on June 7th, redeveloping storms in the early afternoon intensified just south of I-80 and slowly evolved southeastward through the night, producing heavy rainfall rates and at times severe straight-line winds.
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