Alert archive / Illinois / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Chicago, IL
NWS Chicago, IL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 1990, 2:04 PM CDT for Cook County, Kane County, McHenry County, Illinois. It was in force for 41 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 13, 1990, 2:04 PM CDT (19:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 1990, 2:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Chicago, IL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Cook County, IL, Kane County, IL, McHenry County, IL
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 270 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -302 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1372 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 90 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 85 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Chicago, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 2:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Lake | 41 min |
Nearby
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.