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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 83, NWS Chicago, IL

July 4, 1998Iroquois County, Illinois; Benton County, Indiana

NWS Chicago, IL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 4, 1998, 12:48 AM CDT for Iroquois County, Illinois; Benton County, Indiana. It was in force for 42 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
Jul 4, 1998, 12:48 AM CDT (05:48 UTC)
Expired
Jul 4, 1998, 1:30 AM CDT
In force
42 min
Issued by
NWS Chicago, IL
Area
Whole counties

Counties Iroquois County, IL, Benton County, IN

The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 105 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 00:00Z on 1998-07-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1525 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 00:00Z on 1998-07-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 26 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
1525 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-73 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1014 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
26 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
113 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
0.6

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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
Jul 3, 7:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLOTKane28 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Illinois, 1998Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Indiana, 1998Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1998

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.