Alert archive / Illinois / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 143, NWS Chicago, IL
NWS Chicago, IL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 16, 1997, 8:51 PM CDT for Ogle County, Winnebago County, Illinois. It was in force for 54 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 16, 1997, 8:51 PM CDT (01:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 16, 1997, 9:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Chicago, IL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Ogle County, IL, Winnebago County, IL
The radar
The Milwaukee radar (KMKX), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 16, 9:03 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | Countywide, IL | Downed trees and power lines were reported throughout the county. |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 16, 5:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Davenport, (KDVN), launched 00:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 122 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
- 2309 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -50 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1306 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 303 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 501 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 3.1
- Supercell composite
- 15.9
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 16, 8:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Lee | 56 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.