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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHICAGO/ROMEOVILLE IL

928 AM CDT THU APR 18 2013



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KANE IL-KENDALL IL-LA SALLE IL-WILL IL-GRUNDY IL-DE KALB IL-DUPAGE 

IL-

LEE IL-COOK IL-

928 AM CDT THU APR 18 2013



...FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR COOK...SOUTHEASTERN

LEE...DUPAGE...SOUTHERN DE KALB...NORTHERN GRUNDY...NORTHWESTERN

WILL...LA SALLE...KENDALL AND KANE COUNTIES UNTIL NOON CDT...



...FLASH FLOOD EMERGENCY CONTINUES FOR COOK AND DUPAGE COUNTIES...



AT 922 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED 

LIGHT TO MODERATE RAIN CONTINUING ACROSS THE WARNED AREA...THOUGH 

RAINFALL WILL TAPER OFF FOR A TIME LATER THIS MORNING. SOME 

ADDITIONAL RAIN IS POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON...THOUGH IF RAINFALL DOES 

OCCUR THIS AFTERNOON THE RATES WILL BE LIGHTER THAN LAST NIGHT. 



MEDIA AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT REPORTS INDICATE THAT A VERY SERIOUS 

AND POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS FLOOD SITUATION IS UNDERWAY. FLOODING HAS 

BEEN REPORTED IN MANY BASEMENTS AND HOMES...COUNTLESS ROADWAYS ARE 

REPORTED UNDER WATER AND IMPASSIBLE. PORTIONS OF THE 

EISENHOWER...EDENS...AND KENNEDY EXPRESSWAYS HAVE BEEN FLOODED AND 

CLOSED. SOME COMMUNITIES HAVE DECLARED A STATE OF EMERGENCY. 



THIS IS A DANGEROUS AND POTENTIALLY LIFE THREATENING FLOODING EVENT. 

IF YOU DO NOT NEED TO TRAVEL THIS MORNING...STAY HOME. PLEASE DO NOT 

EVEN CONSIDER DRIVING INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD...YOU 

MAY NOT KNOW HOW DEEP THE WATER IS AND THE ROAD MAY HAVE BEEN WASHED 

OUT. DO NOT RISK YOUR LIFE...TURN AROUND...DONT DROWN!



PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...



DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE THE POWER OF FLOOD WATERS. ONLY A FEW INCHES OF

RAPIDLY FLOWING WATER CAN QUICKLY CARRY AWAY YOUR VEHICLE.



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LAT...LON 4214 8774 4208 8767 4197 8764 4196 8762

      4191 8762 4190 8760 4184 8760 4172 8752

      4110 8908 4111 8917 4158 8917 4158 8920

      4165 8921 4196 8876 4216 8833



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