Heavy rainfall from scattered thunderstorms is expected across the Southwest, Intermountain West, and Plains. Isolated dry thunderstorms may initiate additional fires across the west. The coastal Carolinas may experience flash floods in the coming days due to repeated thunderstorms. Additionally, a wave of intense summer heat will hit the Southern Plains and central Gulf Coast States this week. Read More >
This page serves as a location to find past weather event information for northern Illinois and northwest Indiana. To the right is a link to Storm Data, a monthly publication by the NWS's National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI). Storm Data will list all of the finalized, quality controlled hazardous weather reports and damage survey assessments within the NWS Chicago County Warning Area broken down by month. These publications are available three months after the end of the month. To the lower right, there is a thumbnail link to a searchable database of these quality controlled reports. Further below on this page are individual event reviews for the local area sorted by event type. Many of these are archived stories from web top news headlines on our home page in the hours to days after the events occurred. Click on the date to jump to the full archived event review. Each story contains data and records from the event, and often meteorological insight and photos. To quickly search for an event that you may not recall the date of, click the "All" tab, hit Ctrl + F to search your browser, and enter the event and/or city or county impacted. If you cannot find what you are looking for here, try our Local Climate Page, or for visualizing various datasets, also try the NOAA Weather and Climate Toolkit. |
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