{"id":144282,"date":"2026-08-12T11:34:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T11:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/144282\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T11:34:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T11:34:12","slug":"chicago-and-nw-indiana-hit-hard-by-storm-more-rain-in-the-forecast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/144282\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago and NW Indiana hit hard by storm; more rain in the forecast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsnowwarsaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Screenshot-2026-08-12-054929.png\" data-caption=\"West Prairie Street in Warsaw expirienced flooding shortly after Tuesday&#039;s storm.  News Now Warsaw photo by Dan Spalding.\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"428\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Screenshot-2026-08-12-054929-696x428.png\"   alt=\"\" title=\"Screenshot 2026-08-12 054929\"\/><\/a>West Prairie Street in Warsaw expirienced flooding shortly after Tuesday&#8217;s storm.  News Now Warsaw photo by Dan Spalding.<br \/>\nBy Dan Spalding<br \/>News Now Warsaw<\/p>\n<p>WARSAW \u2014 Severe weather that passed through Kosciusko County shortly after 1 p.m. Tuesday was part of a much larger storm system that cut power to more than half a million people in the Chicago area and northwestern Indiana.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Northwest Indiana was especially hard hit.<\/p>\n<p>A maximum wind gust of 99 mph was recorded at Gary, and all flights were temporarily stopped at Chicago\u2019s two major airports.<\/p>\n<p>Two tornadoes on the south side of Chicago were also reported by the National Weather Service.<\/p>\n<p>Locally, the National Weather Service says two\u00a0 to five inches of rain fell across much of the area, with isolated pockets of more than six inches.<\/p>\n<p>A flood watch remains in effect today for Kosciusko County and areas generally south of U.S. 30.<\/p>\n<p>Additional heavy rains are possible later this morning and again this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Rainfall rates could be 1 to 2 inches per hour, and that could lead to additional flooding, especially in areas that received heavy rain on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"West Prairie Street in Warsaw expirienced flooding shortly after Tuesday&#8217;s storm. News Now Warsaw photo by Dan Spalding.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":144283,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[95],"tags":[68923,26375,269,54437,68924,26728,68925,35393,68926,182,68927,68928,181],"class_list":["post-144282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-warsaw","tag-airports-closed","tag-chicago","tag-forecast","tag-heavy-rain","tag-heavy-winds","tag-kosciusko-county","tag-more-rain","tag-national-weather-service","tag-northwest-indiana","tag-poland","tag-south-side-of-chicago","tag-two-tornadoes","tag-warsaw"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/117082329549332049","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}