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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHICAGO/ROMEOVILLE IL

642 PM CDT MON JUL 9 2007



ILC037-100130-

DEKALB IL-

642 PM CDT MON JUL 9 2007



...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 830 PM CDT FOR

DEKALB COUNTY...



AT 650 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATES 

THAT THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL HAS ENDED IN CENTRAL DEKALB 

COUNTY...HOWEVER THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO PRODUCE VERY HEAVY 

RAINFALL OVER SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF DEKALB COUNTY. 



THROUGH 645 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED 

THAT ONE TO THREE INCHES OF RAIN FELL OVER SOUTHERN DEKALB 

COUNTY...WITH AN ADDITIONAL ONE TO THREE INCHES OF RAINFALL POSSIBLE 

SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 88 IN DEKALB COUNTY BETWEEN 7 PM AND 9 PM THIS 

EVENING. THIS HEAVY RAINFALL WILL LEAD TO FLASH FLOODING OVER 

SOUTHERN DEKALB COUNTY THIS EVENING.



FARTHER NORTH OVER CENTRAL DEKALB COUNTY NEAR THE CITIES OF DEKALB 

AND SYCAMORE THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL HAS ENDED...HOWEVER RUNOFF 

CONTINUES FROM THE TORRENTIAL RAIN THAT FELL THIS AFTERNOON. A 

TRAINED SPOTTER NEAR DOWNTOWN DEKALB MEASURED 4.18 INCHES OF 

RAIN...AND ANOTHER TRAINED SPOTTER NEAR THE DEKALB SYCAMORE BORDER 

MEASURED 4.25 INCHES OF RAIN. MUCH OF THIS RAIN FELL IN LESS THAN A 

TWO HOUR PERIOD LEADING TO SIGNIFICANT FLASH FLOODING. 



NUMEROUS BASEMENTS HAVE BEEN REPORTED FLOODED...MANY HIGH WATER 

RESCUES WERE PERFORMED IN THE CITY OF DEKALB...AND WITH WATER 

FLOWING INTO BUILDINGS ON THE NIU CAMPUS. LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS 

REPORT THAT FLOOD WATERS ARE BEGINNING TO SUBSIDE IN DEKALB AND ON 

THE NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY CAMPUS. HOWEVER UNTIL ALL FLOOD 

WATERS RECEDE PERSONS SHOULD EXERCISE EXTREME CAUTION THIS EVENING. 



DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAYS IF A 

FLOODED ROAD IS ENCOUNTERED...TURN AROUND...DONT DROWN 



LAT...LON 4206 8861 4173 8861 4172 8862 4164 8861

      4164 8894 4198 8896 4215 8860 4207 8860



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