NBC 5’s Lisa Chavarria reports from the NBC 5’s Storm Chaser on floodings near Sheridan Road and Hollywood Avenue.
Storms dumped a couple of inches of rain on the Chicago area this Mother's Day weekend, with most counties across northern Illinois under a Flash Flood Watch Saturday evening.
The National Weather Service had issued a Flash Flood Watch for large portions of Northern Illinois, including DeKalb, LaSalle, Grundy, Kane, Kendall, DuPage, Cook, and Will counties Saturday.
By Sunday morning, some areas saw up to 3 inches of rain, according to the NWS.
Here's a look at 2-day rainfall totals across the Chicago area as of Sunday morning:
Cook County
Lockport: 3.02 inches
Plainfield: 2.82
Local
Oak Lawn 2SE: 1.99 inches
Oak Lawn: 1.88 inches
Worth: 1.83 inches
Lincolnwood: 1.58 inches
Elk Grove Village: 1.54 inches
Chicago Ridge: 1.44 inches
Park Ridge: 1.29 inches
O'Hare Airport: 1.27 inches
Willow Springs: 0.98 inches
Botanic Gardens: 0.95 inches
Oak Park: 0.9 inches
Midway Airport: 0.89 inches
Arlington Heights: 0.88 inches
Alsip: 0.85 inches
Wheeling: 0.84 inches
Park Forest: 0.63 inches
DeKalb County
DeKalb: 0.48 inches
Genoa: 0.44 inches
Earlville: 0.42 inches
DuPage County
Burr Ridge: 1.16 inches
Elmhurst: 0.86 inches
Westmont: 0.78 inches
West Chicago: 0.7 inches
Glen Ellyn: 0.6 inches
Wheaton: 0.48 inches
Downers Grove: 0.4 inches
Grundy County
Morris: 0.41 inches
Minooka: 0.33 inches
Carbon Hill: 0.28 inches
Coal City: 0.28 inches
Kane County
St. Charles: 1.5 inches
Sugar Grove: 0.8 inches
Elgin: 0.75 inches
Geneva: 0.72 inches
Batavia: 0.48 inches
Elburn 0.42 inches
Kendall County
Plainfield: 1.56 inches
Montgomery: 0.54 inches
LaSalle County
Peru: 0.5 inches
Ottawa: 0.47 inches
Lake County, Ind.
Gary: 1.02 inches
Merrillville: 0.6 inches
Lake Zurich: 0.54 inches
Porter County, Ind.
Valparaiso: 0.73 inches
Portage: 0.52 inches
