{"id":735412,"date":"2026-04-17T23:07:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T23:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/735412\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T23:07:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T23:07:18","slug":"hail-downpours-and-even-tornadoes-possible-in-chicago-area-nbc-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/735412\/","title":{"rendered":"Hail, downpours and even tornadoes possible in Chicago area \u2013 NBC Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Strong to severe storms could bring hail, heavy rainfall and even twisters to the Chicago area on Friday, with several counties under a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcchicago.com\/weather\/here-we-go-again-more-severe-weather-threatens-chicago-area-with-hail-tornadoes-flooding\/3924163\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">tornado watch<\/a> until 8 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>After an afternoon of summer-like temperatures in the 70s and even 80s, storms and showers are expected to roll in around 5 p.m. <\/p>\n<p>The vast majority of northeastern Illinois is under an &#8220;enhanced&#8221; risk of severe weather, ranking at a three out of five on the Storm Prediction Center scale, according to the National Weather Service. <\/p>\n<p>The main threat of the storms is predicted to be damaging winds, but a few tornadoes cannot be ruled out, according to NWS.<\/p>\n<p>Friday&#8217;s storms are expected to be the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcchicago.com\/weather\/stories\/chicago-area-severe-weather-forecast-friday-tornadoes-hail\/3923849\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">final round of severe weather<\/a> in the Chicago area this week, landing as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcchicago.com\/news\/local\/residents-in-des-plaines-other-suburbs-brace-for-more-flooding-amid-heavy-rains\/3924009\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">many are still tackling flooding and rising water levels<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcchicago.com\/weather\/stories\/chicago-severe-weather-large-tornadoes-hail-gusty-winds-live-updates\/3922563\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">storms earlier this week<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Track the storms using the Live Doppler 5 Radar <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcchicago.com\/news\/local\/live-radar-track-rain-and-storms-across-chicago-area-as-severe-weather-looms\/3924425\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Strong to severe storms could bring hail, heavy rainfall and even twisters to the Chicago area on Friday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":735413,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,5386,1818,5313],"class_list":{"0":"post-735412","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-chicago","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-illinois","11":"tag-severe-weather"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116422564043124999","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735412","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=735412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735412\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/735413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=735412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=735412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=735412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}