An Investigation of Flood-Producing Storms in Illinois

Huff, Floyd A.; Semonin, Richard G.

doi:10.1007/978-1-940033-39-6_9

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“…When the orientation of the major storms were stratified by season there was no significant difference in the statistics. These results agree with an earlier study by Huff and Semonin (1960). They showed that the most frequent orientation of major flood-producing storms in Illinois was from the west-southwest and northwest.…”

Section: Storm Orientationsupporting

confidence: 93%

HEAVY RAINFAL RELATIONS OVER CHICAGO AND NORTHEASTERN ILLINOIS¹

Vogel¹,

Huff²

1977

J American Water Resour Assoc

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Detailed studies of rainfall frequency and pattern relations were made over the Chicago urban region and the surrounding six Illinois counties (Cook, DuPage, Kane, Will, Lake, and McHenry). These studies utilized raingage records from an urban network of National Weather Service raingages in the region, primarily for the period 1949 to 1974. Frequency distributions of point rainfall were obtained for periods from 5 minutes to 72 hours and recurrence intervals of 6 months to 50 years. These results indicated a spatial pattern of short‐duration heavy rainfall frequencies related to urban‐lake effects, particularly in the huge industrial region over the southern portion of Chicago. The time distribution within heavy rainstorms over the urban region was determined, and it was found that the point rainfall relations over the urban region were similar to a 12‐year sample of a dense raingage network over a rural area in central Illinois. The characteristics of heavy rainfall over northeast Illinois were also studied through the use of heavy, 1‐day storms. A total of 87 storms, capable of producing local flooding, were analyzed to determine 1) the frequency distribution of storm centers, 2) seasonal and diurnal distribution of storms, and 3) orientation and movement of storms.

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Section: Storm Orientationsupporting

confidence: 93%

HEAVY RAINFAL RELATIONS OVER CHICAGO AND NORTHEASTERN ILLINOIS¹

Vogel¹,

Huff²

1977

J American Water Resour Assoc

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“…An analysis of 106 storms on the 10-square-mile network in which mean rainfall exceeded 0.50 inch also showed orientations most frequently from the SW and WSW. A study of the large-scale, outstanding flood-producing storms in Illinois [Huff and Semonin, 1960] revealed that the most frequent orientation of the storm centers was from WSW through W to WNW. A detailed study of 10 large-scale storms in the period from [1951][1952][1953][1954][1955][1956][1957][1958][1959][1960] in which the 12-hour rainfall exceeded 8 inches at the storm center revealed a median orientation of 270 degrees with an average wind direction in the layer from 5000 to 20,000 feet of 255 degrees.…”

Section: Storm Shape and Orientationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Time distribution of rainfall in heavy storms

Huff¹

1967

Water Resources Research

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Time distribution relations have been developed for heavy storms on areas ranging up to 400 square miles and presented in probability terms to provide quantitative information on interstorm variability and to provide average and extreme relations for various applications of the findings. It was found that the relations could be represented best by relating per cent of storm rainfall to per cent of total storm time and grouping the data according to the quartile in which rainfall was heaviest. The individual effects of mean rainfall, storm duration, and other storm factors were small and erratic in behavior when the foregoing analytical technique was used. Basin area had a small but consistent effect upon the time distribution. The derived relations are applicable to the Midwest and other areas of similar climate and topography. They can be used in conjunction with published information on spatial distributions and other storm parameters to construct storm models for hydrologic applications.

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“…Moreover, the potential for floods increases when heavy rainfall has occurred upwind of the drainage basin during the previous 12 to 24 hours (Huff 1960(Huff , 1978a In a comprehensive study concerned with the meteorological aspects of flash floods in the United States, Maddox et al (1979), identified the meteorological conditions associated with more than 150 flash flood events. Large floodproducing storms in Illinois were found to be the result of either the passage of a wave along a stationary front or strong instability in large maritime tropical air masses.…”

Section: Climate-streamflow Associationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Flooding potential is greatest when the humidity in the Midwest has been high for several days prior to the initiation of the precipitation event. Moreover, the potential for floods increases when heavy rainfall has occurred upwind of the drainage basin during the previous 12 to 24 hours (Huff 1960(Huff , 1978a In a comprehensive study concerned with the meteorological aspects of flash floods in the United States, Maddox et al (1979), identified the meteorological conditions associated with more than 150 flash flood events. Results from their analysis identified two dominant classes of flood-producing mechanisms (synoptic and frontal) which are capable of generating floods over a relatively large area.…”

Section: Climate-streamflow Associationsmentioning

confidence: 99%