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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 43, NWS Chicago, IL

May 12, 2000Jasper County, Indiana

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.

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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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Lincoln, IL at 00:00Z on 2000-05-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 162 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 2000-05-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -36 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
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

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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.