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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 43, NWS Chicago, IL
NWS Chicago, IL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 12, 2000, 8:26 PM CDT for Jasper County, Indiana. It was in force for 34 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
- May 12, 2000, 8:26 PM CDT (01:26 UTC)
- Expired
- May 12, 2000, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Chicago, IL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Jasper County, IN
The radar
The Chicago radar (KLOT), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:28 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 159 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
- 162 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -342 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 528 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -36 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 106 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -1.5
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Chicago, IL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 12, 3:29 PM CDT, 4 hours 57 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 12, 3:29 PM CDT, 4 hours 57 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHICAGO IL 330 AM CDT FRI MAY 12 2000 THE AIR MASS IS UNSTABLE AND A LOT OF THE CAP IS BROKEN AS SEEN ON THE ACCARS SOUNDINGS AT ORD THIS LATE AFTERNOON. CONVECTION IS FIRING UP IN CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST ILLINOIS. THE FRONT STILL LIES ACROSS JUST NORTH OF QUINCY TO AROUND MILWAUKEE. USING THE ETA AND AVN SOLUTIONS WILL FORECAST THE FRONT PAST CHICAGO BETWEEN 0000 UTC AND 0600 UTC TONIGHT. WILL KEEP SKIES CLOUDY SATURDAY MORNING. AS THE TROUGH AT 500 MB MOVES OVER 1200 UTC AND 1800 UTC SATURDAY. WILL BE VERY CLOSE TO MOS FORECASTS FOR HIGHS AND LOWS SATURDAY AND SUNDAY. SEVERE WEATHER WILL OCCUR TONIGHT OVER THE FORECAST AREA AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO END LATE TONIGHT AS THE FRONT MOVES THROUGH. .CHI...NONE WHW
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 12, 6:28 PM CDT, 1 hour 58 minutes before
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.