A flash flood warning has been issued for parts of Cook County, including the city of Chicago.<\/p>\n
According to the National Weather Service, the warning covers east-central Cook County, including the city, until 11:45 p.m. Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Numerous neighborhoods, including the Loop, Near West Side, Near South Side, Bridgeport and numerous others, are impacted by the warning.<\/p>\n
The NBC 5 Storm Team warns that rain is falling at a rate of approximately six inches per hour in the affected areas, with the slow-moving storm overwhelming drainage systems and low-lying areas. <\/p>\n
Heavy rain is falling across much of the city on Tuesday night, with forecasters warning of \u201crapid-onset flooding\u201d in the hardest-hit areas. The National Weather Service warned residents of the potential of “life-threatening flooding” amid the storms. <\/p>\n
More storms are possible across the area Wednesday afternoon and into the evening hours, with heavy rain and gusty winds once again possible, according to officials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A flash flood warning has been issued for parts of Cook County, including the city of Chicago. According…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":50349,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,38025,5386,1818],"class_list":["post-50348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chicago","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-flooding","tag-il","tag-illinois"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114821089520046276","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}