How much rain did we get? Here’s a breakdown of rainfall amounts across southwest IL

Derik Holtmann/dholtmann@bnd.com

The National Weather Service St. Louis issued a flash flood warning for St. Clair County, Madison County and several other metro east areas Tuesday morning.

Some parts of the Missouri side of the region received more than 10 inches of rain.

Belleville appeared to get the most rain on the Illinois side, NWS St. Louis senior service hydrologist Mark Fuchs said.

Some of the data was collected while rain was still falling, Fuchs said, so the total rainfall may exceed what is currently being reported. Additionally, the locations are approximate, and some rainfall measuring sites are a few miles away from city limits.

Check here for flooding road closures across southwestern Illinois

Two amounts may be listed for areas with more than one rainfall gauge. The update times for the automatic gauges vary, but Fuchs said most locations’ data covered rainfall for the past 24 hours. Locations in bold were updated Tuesday afternoon. The rest are from Tuesday morning, as more recent numbers were not yet available.

Here are rainfall amounts, in inches, from the last 24 hours (unless otherwise noted) by locality, according to National Weather Service St. Louis:

Illinois locations

Belleville: 6.23, 6.33

Cahokia: 7.23

Fairview Heights: 6.16

Freeburg (Silver Creek): 4.16

Hoffman: 3.44

Illinois River at Hardin: 2.57

Live updates: Caseyville nursing home evacuated. Flooding continues in southwest IL

Red Bud: 0.39

St. Libory 3.25

Sparta: 0.14

Ashley: 5.15

Columbia/Waterloo: 0.6

O’Fallon: 5.08

Smithton: 2.48

Richland Creek: 1.34 (in the last 12 hours)

Mascoutah: 5.78

Fairmont City: 6.25

Granite City: 5.32

Edwardsville: 3.03, 2.98

Troy: 2.15

Maryville: 2.12

Grafton: 3

Mount Vernon: 2.52, 2.81

Missouri locations:

St. Peters: 12.86

St. Louis: 7.79

Lambert International Airport: 8.63 Tuesday, storm total 9.06

This story may be updated to include new data.

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