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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHICAGO/ROMEOVILLE IL

134 PM CDT SAT SEP 13 2008



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MCHENRY IL-BOONE IL-LAKE IL-OGLE IL-COOK IL-KANE IL-DEKALB IL-

DUPAGE IL-LEE IL-KENDALL IL-LA SALLE IL-

134 PM CDT SAT SEP 13 2008



...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 430 PM CDT FOR

NORTHERN LA SALLE...NORTHERN KENDALL...LEE...DUPAGE...DEKALB...

KANE...NORTHERN COOK...SOUTHEASTERN OGLE...LAKE...SOUTHERN BOONE AND

MCHENRY COUNTIES...



AT 123 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE

HEAVY RAIN PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING OVER THE WARNED AREA.



LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE THE AREA FROM DIXON AND 

LASALLE...EAST THROUGH DEKALB...AND THE NORTH AND WEST SUBURBS OF 

CHICAGO. 



DOPPLER RADAR AND WEATHER OBSERVERS INDICATE THAT MORE THAN 4 INCHES 

OF RAIN HAS FALLEN ACROSS THE AREA. THE HEAVIEST RAIN HAS BEEN IN A 

CORRIDOR FROM COMPTON TO ELGIN TO WILMETTE...WHERE 6 TO 8 INCHES OF 

RAIN HAS FALLEN. AT 130 PM RADAR SHOWED RAIN CONTINUING TO FALL AT 

THE RATE OF ONE QUARTER TO THREE QUARTERS OF AN INCH AN HOUR. RAIN 

WAS GRADUALLY DIMINISHING IN INTENSITY IN WESTERN ILLINOIS...BUT 

STEADY RAIN WAS CONTINUING. THE BAND OF RAIN IS EXPECTED TO 

GRADUALLY WEAKEN AND SHIFT SLOWLY SOUTHWARD THROUGH THE AREA THIS 

AFTERNOON AND EVENING. 



SOME SMALL STREAMS IN FLOOD INCLUDE 

SKOKIE RIVER AT LAKE FOREST...

BUFFALO CREEK AT WHEELING...

SALT CREEK AT ROLLING MEADOWS...ELMHURST...AND WESTERN SPRINGS...

WELLER CREEK AT DES PLAINES...

THE NORTH BRANCH OF THE CHICAGO RIVER AT DEERFIELD

AND THE EAST BRANCH OF THE DUPAGE RIVER AT BOLINGBROOK.



MANY ROADS ARE FLOODED. DO NOT DRIVE IN THIS AREA UNLESS ABSOLUTELY 

NECESSARY. 



EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL

CREEKS AND STREAMS...HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES. ADDITIONALLY...COUNTRY

ROADS AND FARMLANDS ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS...STREAMS AND OTHER LOW

LYING AREAS ARE SUBJECT TO FLOODING. DONT DRIVE INTO FLOODED ROADS. 



LAT...LON 4172 8803 4173 8826 4165 8829 4162 8835

      4130 8917 4157 8918 4158 8942 4187 8962

      4216 8903 4216 8894 4221 8894 4249 8836

      4249 8778 4227 8782 4207 8765 4188 8761



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