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  1. 47 minutes ago, Malacka11 said:

    Aurora received the greatest 24-hour rainfall (16.94 inches) in Illinois history, exceeding the previous record of 16.54 inches at East St. Louis on June 14, 1957. A broad band of 8-inch-plus rainfall from just south of Rockford to a little north of Kankakee exceeded the 7.58 inch threshold regarded as the average 100-year (once every 100 years) 24-hour storm for a given point in northeast Illinois. The deluge in Aurora was considered a 1-in-1,000-year event. The Joliet Brandon Dam measured 13.60 inches, and a gauge in the extreme southwest corner of the Chicago metro area recorded 10.99 inches. Strong thunderstorms hit on the afternoon of the 17th, but the greatest rainfall in most areas occurred in early morning thunderstorms on the 18th.

    Wow. Never knew that was a thing. Shared assuming there's at least one other ignoramus like me in here

     

     

     

     

     

    Man, I moved here almost 2 years ago and thus have never heard of it.  I went through the great flood nobody knows about, but even that "only" put down this much rain.  "In two days, a record of 13.67″ of rain fell in Nashville, nearly doubling the old two day total from the remnants of a hurricane in 1979."

  2. 8 minutes ago, Baum said:

    it seems the immediate Chicago metro is working itself back to the 3-4" totals that looked reasonable before yesterday's 12Z runs. Shame, would have been a nice storm if a phase had occurred.

    looking at the radar the precip shield is looking to overtake all of Chicagoland this afternoon / evening.  or, is it going to take a dramatic turn East?

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