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Tornado Warning 7, NWS Chicago, IL

July 2, 1993Cook County, DuPage County, Kane County, Illinois

NWS Chicago, IL issued this tornado warning at Jul 2, 1993, 7:24 PM CDT for Cook County, DuPage County, Kane County, Illinois. It was in force for 36 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 2, 1993, 7:24 PM CDT (00:24 UTC)
Expired
Jul 2, 1993, 8:00 PM CDT
In force
36 min
Issued by
NWS Chicago, IL
Area
Whole counties

Counties Cook County, IL, DuPage County, IL, Kane County, IL

The nearest sounding before it

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 287 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Green Bay/Straub, WI at 00:00Z on 1993-07-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 274 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Green Bay/Straub, WI at 00:00Z on 1993-07-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 47 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
274 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-13 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1041 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
47 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
38 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
1.3

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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.