#NWS #flood #nwsflashflood #FlashFloodWarning Flash Flood Warning for Ford, IL; Iroquois, IL; Benton, IN #INwx FFWLOT The National Weather Service in Chicago has issued a * Flash Flood Warning for... Ford County in east central Illinois... Southern Iroquois […] [Original post on ai6yr.org]
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Flash Flood Warning issued August 14 at 12:48AM CDT until August 14 at 3:45AM CDT by NWS Chicago ILFFWLOT The National Weather Service in Chicago has issued a * Flash Flood Warning for... Ford County in east central Illinois... Southern Iroquois County in east central Illinois... Southern Benton County in northwestern Indiana... * Until 345 AM CDT /445 AM EDT/. * At 1248 AM CDT /148 AM EDT/, Doppler radar and automated rain gauges indicated thunderstorms producing heavy rain across the warned area. Between 1 and 3 inches of rain have fallen. The expected rainfall rate is 1.5 to 3 inches in 1 hour. Additional rainfall amounts of 1 to 3 inches are possible in the warned area. Flash flooding is ongoing or expected to begin shortly. HAZARD...Flash flooding caused by thunderstorms. SOURCE...Radar and automated gauges. IMPACT...Rapid-onset flooding of creeks, streams, drainage ditches, streets, underpasses, low-lying areas, and other poor drainage areas. * Some locations that will experience flash flooding include... Paxton, Gibson City, Fowler, Otterbein, Oxford, Cissna Park, Boswell, Buckley, Stockland, Melvin, Loda, Roberts, Elliott, Sibley, Wellington, Ambia, Clarence, Claytonville and Dunnington.