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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 41, NWS Chicago, IL

July 16, 1995LaPorte County, Indiana

NWS Chicago, IL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 16, 1995, 3:14 PM CDT for LaPorte County, Indiana. It was in force for 15 min.

The area

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The facts

Issued
Jul 16, 1995, 3:14 PM CDT (20:14 UTC)
Expired
Jul 16, 1995, 3:29 PM CDT
In force
15 min
Issued by
NWS Chicago, IL
Area
Whole counties

County LaPorte County, IN

The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 220 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, Lincoln, IL at 12:00Z on 1995-07-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2060 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, Lincoln, IL at 12:00Z on 1995-07-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 53 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
2060 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-36 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1103 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
53 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
35 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.8

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Chicago, IL issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 16, 1:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLOTMarshall, Starke51 min
Jul 16, 3:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLOTSaint Joseph17 min
Jul 16, 5:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLOTWhite30 min

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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.