Lakeshore Flood, Cook
- When
- December 1, 6:00 PM CST to December 2, 12:00 PM CST
- Where
- Cook forecast zone
- Reported by
- Emergency Manager
Lakeshore Flood in Illinois, December 1 to 2, 2019
Strong onshore winds produced high waves which combined with high lake levels produced lake shore flooding. Portions of the Chicago Park District Lakefront Trail in Chicago were closed due to flooding.
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
What happened
The episode as NWS LOT wrote it up.
Strong onshore winds produced high waves which combined with high lake levels produced lake shore flooding. Portions of the Chicago Park District Lakefront Trail in Chicago were closed due to flooding.
Event by event
1 lakeshore flood. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Lakeshore Flood
- Flooding along the shore of one of the Great Lakes or another large lake.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Heavy Rain in California, December 1 to 2, 2019
- Ice Storm in Maryland, December 1, 2019
- Winter Storm and Lakeshore Flood in Wisconsin, December 1, 2019
- Ice Storm in Michigan, December 1, 2019
- Debris Flows and Flooding in California, December 1 to 5, 2019
- Winter Storm in Michigan, December 1, 2019
- Blizzard and Winter Storm in Nebraska, December 1, 2019
- Heavy Snow and Winter Weather in New York, December 1 to 3, 2019
- Winter Storm and Winter Weather in Vermont, December 1 to 2, 2019
- Winter Storm in South Dakota, December 1, 2019
- Winter Storm and Winter Weather in South Dakota, December 1, 2019
- Debris Flow and Heavy Snow in California, December 1 to 3, 2019
More
Every storm in Illinois in 2019Every state in 2019This day in weather historyWarnings in Illinois, December 2019
Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-30. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 869128.