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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 69, NWS Chicago, IL

June 21, 1997White County, Indiana

NWS Chicago, IL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 21, 1997, 3:29 PM EST for White County, Indiana. It was in force for 46 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 21, 1997, 3:29 PM EST (20:29 UTC)
Expired
Jun 21, 1997, 4:15 PM EST
In force
46 min
Issued by
NWS Chicago, IL
Area
Whole counties

County White County, IN

The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 161 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 1997-06-21Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3170 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 1997-06-21The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 187 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
3170 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-37 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
624 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
187 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
146 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 20, 7:32 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLOTBoone, Winnebago58 min
Jun 20, 7:48 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLOTCook, DuPage57 min
Jun 20, 8:54 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLOTCook51 min
Jun 21, 6:16 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLOTLee, Ogle59 min
Jun 21, 6:49 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLOTWinnebago41 min
Jun 21, 4:07 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLOTFulton53 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.