Chicago weather forecast: Tornado warning for some of NW Indiana is running; Storms bring strong winds and floods to southern suburbs

Chicago (WLS) – Another round strong storms moved through the Chicago area on Wednesday afternoon.

ABC7 Accuweather meteorologist said the afternoon forecast called for potential storms, but it was isolated.

A Tornado clock is indeed Jasper County, Indiana until 10 p.m.

Tornado warnings and heavy thunderstorms were in force for parts of the northwest Indiana and the district south of Chicago, but they have expired since then.

The storm system also brought serious floods to the southern suburbs.

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The Storm Prediction Center initially called for a risk of level 3 for most of the area in Chicago. Around noon, the risk of a large part of the area was reduced to a level 2, with a risk of north and west suburbs level 1 and a risk of level 3 for parts of the northwest.

The second, stronger striker line is expected to be along 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. and south of the Interstate 80 due to the highest risk of storms.

Harmful winds and large hail are the main threats to the storms.

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Several rounds of heavy rains and heavy winds in the course of the morning and the rest of Wednesday caused damage, floods and traffic delays in the region.

According to Indiana State Police, the Interstate 65 is closed to the north on the Mile Marker 239, 1 mile south of the Lowell exit, after five Semis, probably because of strong wind, as a short storm.

None of the truck drivers were injured and they wore light loads at the time of the crashes, the authorities said. The traffic was redirected to State Route 10. Drivers had long delays.

The floods of the morning rash also caused traffic disorders on the I-80 in the Cherry Hill RD in Will County and in the IL-171/Archer Ave. Between 95 and 107. In Cook County.

The floods also affected a CTA bus on the South Side of Chicago. CTA said #115 Pullman/115. Buses were temporarily redirected into both directions over 95th, King Drive, 100th and Cottage Grove.

Dolton in the southern suburbs still dry out on Wednesday evening.

The residents of the region are no stranger to flood, but what they said is more unhappy that the area of ​​flood is known, but what it does not know is to get help for the floods.

The recent rain rounds converted large thoroughfare into waterways.

“I wanted to go to Indiana to get gasoline. That’s how I go normally, but when I was there, I had no idea that it was like that when I crossed the street,” said emergency driver Dee Raines.

Raines’ car got stuck, remained and stopped when he tried to drive through 144 and Indiana, where the storms left water storms.

“I just hit the water as if the soil fell lower and I was in the water to my doors,” said Raines.

Firefighters came to help Dee get out of her car and carry the woman on her shoulders through flooded street.

“I said, ‘Please don’t let me fall’, every step of the way. ‘Please don’t let me fall,” said Raines.

Latrina Cason only said at 147. And Wabash, near 147th and Wabash, said Latrina Cason that the flood in the basement of her house has reached the stairs to her first floor.

“Here it looked outside in the middle of the street,” said Cason. “It was muddy, bad. I mean, you could see it pretty much.”

Now she is faced with large home repairs for the second time within five years.

“We bought this house in 2019 and the first big flood was 2021,” said Cason. “And that? I can’t go on.”

The street in front of your house still looks more like a river, not sure where the street ends and the sidewalk begins.

Cason said her insurance would not cover the repairs. And now she no longer knows whether Dolton is the place for her.

“I can’t do that all the time,” said Cason. “I’ll move soon. I have to go. I can’t.”

Cason announced ABC7 on Wednesday at 9 p.m. that there was still no help from the village.

ABC7 turned to the village of Dolton for an answer, but did not hear back. However, the new administration should take over to solve the long -term problems that cause this type of flood.

The rainy weather delayed the beginning of a white SOX game from 1:10 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday, but the goals were opened in time in SOX Park.

A cold front is expected to move from around 8 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Wednesday evening and take the risk for further storms.

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