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A Severe Thunderstorm Warning in effect for Cook County until 4:15 p.m. was allowed to expire. Previous warnings for Grundy, LaSalle, DuPage, Kane, Will and Kendall counties also expired.
The National Weather Service began issuing Severe Thunderstorm Warnings for areas of Chicagoland around 2 pm.
The fairly quick-moving storm system was out of the metro area by 7 p.m.
Much of the metro area was under a level 2 of 5, or slight risk, of seeing a strong or severe thunderstorm. While the risk was on the lower end, the storms had potential to produce damaging winds, lightning and locally drenching downpours.
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