By RFD Radio

LINCOLN – While tropical storm Harvey continues to pound away at southeast Texas, Illinois weather officials say they are keeping a close eye on the remnants of the storm.

National Weather Service Meteorologist Chris Miller said by later this week the storm should start to move north through the Ohio Valley leaving the chance of rolling through central Illinois.

“It might even get into Southern Illinois we get late into the Labor Day weekend so that’s something we are going to watch here really closely because of the remnants of those storms just bring so much rainfall with them,” Miller said.

Miller said while the remnants of the storm could in fact get to central Illinois, he says there are a lot of things that must happen for the area to get the full impact.

“At this point, we are expecting if it does impact anywhere in Illinois it will primary be in the southern third of Illinois, but we are going to watch this because a lot of things have to come together to keep that out of our area,” Miller said.

Miller noted it was just two years ago when Central Illinois received heavy rainfall from the remnants of a tropical storm.