Severe thunderstorm warnings popped off in the greater Chicago area through the evening Thursday, forcing the evacuation of tens of thousands of people from the Windy City Smokeout.

Chicago experienced one of its heaviest rainfall events since September 2023 on Tuesday night, leading to water rescues and flooded basements.An outflow boundary surging northward into the city from earlier storms south of Interstate 80 led to one lone thunderstorm cell developing over Chicago just before 9 p.

Heavy rainfall in a short amount of time Tuesday night left some drivers flooded out in several underpasses on the city’s West Side, while social media posts showed rising water threatening to flood h...

Severe thunderstorms and torrential downpours capable of producing flash flooding will both repeat and jump around from day to day over the central United States through the remainder of this week.

“We will provide more information as it becomes available,” the Sox wrote on social media before the scheduled 6:40 p.m. first pitch.