Alert archive / Illinois / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 41, NWS Chicago, IL
NWS Chicago, IL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 28, 1998, 10:11 PM CDT for 4 counties in Illinois. It was in force for 49 min. 3 reports 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
- May 28, 1998, 10:11 PM CDT (03:11 UTC)
- Expired
- May 28, 1998, 11:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Chicago, IL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Cook County, IL, DuPage County, IL, Lake County, IL, Will County, IL
The radar
The Chicago radar (KLOT), 35 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:15 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 28, 10:16 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | West Chicago, IL | DuPage EOC reported a 58 mph wind gust and a 52 mph wind gust was reported at the DuPage airport. Strong winds downed trees. |
| May 28, 10:27 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 | Lake Villa, IL | Scattered power outages were reported countywide, which also resulted in some school closures. A tree fell on a vehicle in the area of Route 83 and Route 137. No injuries were reported. |
| May 28, 10:45 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 56 | Arlington Hgts, IL | Strong thunderstorm winds downed trees and numerous power lines. Commonwealth Edison estimated 150,000 households were without power in northern Illinois for about 12 hours. Wind gust reached 65 mph in Country Club Hills and 60 mph in Arlington Heights. In Arl |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 28, 6:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Davenport, (KDVN), launched 00:00Z, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 218 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
- 2333 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -26 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1689 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 4 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 28, 8:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Lee, Ogle, Winnebago | 48 min |
| May 28, 9:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Boone, DeKalb | 55 min |
| May 28, 9:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Boone, DeKalb | 34 min |
| May 28, 9:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Kane, McHenry | 36 min |
| May 28, 10:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Kendall | 49 min |
| May 28, 10:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | DeKalb, Kane | 36 min |
| May 28, 11:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Will | 32 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.