Strong thunderstorms rolling through suburbs early today

A brief, but potentially dangerous line of thunderstorms is rolling through the area early today and could bring wind gusts of up to 70 mph and hail.

Parts of McHenry County are under a thunderstorm warning through 8:45 a.m.

Lake County and parts of northern Cook and Kane counties are also under the same warning through 9:45 a.m. Portions of DuPage County could be affected as well.

Metra has suspended service in the affected areas as well, which is expected to last until about 9:30 a.m.

Flights at Midway and O'Hare airports were grounded for about 30 minutes as the storm passed through the area as well.

More than 11,000 ComEd customers were without power shortly after the storm system came through. Most of the outages were reported in the northern suburbs. Currently, about 6,000 customers remain without electricity, according to ComEd's outage website.