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Major flooding along Des Plaines, DuPage, Fox rivers
May 18, 2020 6:49 PM - Residents across the suburbs spent Monday bailing out basements and navigating around impassable roads after a wet weekend overwhelmed local waterways and challenged flood prevention systems. But aside from a chance of rain early Tuesday, the National Weather Service's forecast calls for a warmer and much drier week ahead. -
Flash flood warning in effect through morning
May 14, 2020 8:45 PM - The U.S. National Weather Service office in Chicago has issued a flash flood watch in effect through Friday morning. The flash flood watch includes Cook, DuPage and Kane counties as multiple rounds of thunderstorms are expected overnight. -
At least 6 dead as storms hit Oklahoma, Texas and Louisiana
Apr 23, 2020 2:19 PM - Severe weather blew through the South on Thursday after killing at least seven people in Oklahoma, Texas and Louisiana, including a worker at a factory hit by an apparent tornado, a man whose car was blown off the road and a man who went outside to grab a trash can and was swept away in a flood.
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Fairdale 5 years later: Residents share how town has rebuilt after devastating tornado in 2015
Apr 9, 2020 3:58 PM - Clem Schultz said his wife, Geraldine Schultz, is still with him every day, even though she lost her life in the tornado that devastated the unincorporated town of Fairdale in north DeKalb County five years ago.
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Floodwaters recede in LincolnshireMar 30, 2020 2:18 PM - Last week's heavy rains resulted in some minor flooding along the Des Plaines River in Lincolnshire over the weekend.
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National Weather Service: Tornado Watch for Kane, 32 Illinois countiesMar 28, 2020 9:34 PM - The National Weather Service issued a tornado watch for Kane and 32 other Illinois counties Saturday night.
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Large hail, tornadoes possible with storms this evening
Mar 28, 2020 9:21 AM - Thunderstorms with the potential to produce large hail and tornadoes could hit the suburbs this afternoon and evening, the National Weather Service is forecasting. -
Tornadoes hit Tennessee, killing at least 19 people
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Constable: Growing up on the farm, some March lambs had the chops to be lions
Feb 27, 2020 8:09 AM - The idea of March coming in like a lion and going out like a lamb is no comfort to people with traumatic lamb memories.
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Valentine's Day brings winter's first, although brief, dip below zero
Feb 14, 2020 11:52 AM - Temperatures dipped below zero early today for the first time this winter, making it the coldest Valentine's Day in 77 years. It was 2 below zero at 8 a.m. at O'Hare International Airport, 1 below at Midway and 7 below at local Weather Service headquarters in Romeoville, the National Weather Service in Chicago reported.
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