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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 10, NWS Chicago, IL

May 26, 2001Jasper County, Porter County, Indiana

NWS Chicago, IL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 2001, 3:47 PM CDT for Jasper County, Porter County, Indiana. It was in force for 43 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 26, 2001, 3:47 PM CDT (20:47 UTC)
Expired
May 26, 2001, 4:30 PM CDT
In force
43 min
Issued by
NWS Chicago, IL
Area
Whole counties

Counties Jasper County, IN, Porter County, IN

The radar

The Chicago radar (KLOT), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:47 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 177 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 2001-05-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 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 2001-05-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 57 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
497 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
57 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
126 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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 26, 2:30 PM CDT, 1 hour 17 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 26, 2:30 PM CDT, 1 hour 17 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHICAGO IL
230 PM CDT SAT MAY 26 2001

WELL DEFINED VORT MAX JUST SE OF QUAD CITIES SHOWS UP WELL ON
SATELLITE LOOPS AND RADAR LOOP. WIDESPREAD CLOUD COVER AND
STRATIFORM RAIN OVER NRN IL. SOUTH OF TRACK OF VORT/SURFACE
LOW...AMS MORE UNSTABLE. LATEST LAPS SHOWING CAPES OF 400 TO 1200
FROM CENTRAL IL TO CENTRAL IN. BAND OF CONVECTION RACING ACROSS
CENTRAL IL WITH MORE SCATTERED CONVECTION DEVELOPING WEST CENTRAL IL
AND NRN MO. COLD ALOFT AND FAIRLY STRONG WIND FIELDS...SO GUSTY
WINDS AND SMALL HAIL POSSIBLE OVER SOUTHERN TIER OF COUNTIES THROUGH
LATE AFTERNOON HOURS. VORT MAX AND SURFACE LOW SHOULD REACH NW IN BY
EARLY EVENING. WITH VORT MOVING OUT AND SUNSET COMING...CONVECTION
SHOULD MOVE OUT/DIE DOWN RAPIDLY THIS EVENING. TO THE
NORTH...STRATIFORM RAIN SHOULD GRADUALLY PIVOT AROUND AND SHOULD END
IN N CENTRAL IL EARLY THIS EVENING BUT MAY LINGER A WHILE IN NE
IL/NW IN. THEN BECOMING PARTLY CLOUDY. DESPITE WET GROUND AND SOME
LATE NIGHT CLEARING...THINK THERE WILL BE ENOUGH NW FLOW TO PREVENT
SIGNIFICANT FOG.

TONIGHT AND SUNDAY UPPER LOW MOVES INTO LOWER MICHIGAN. A LITTLE BIT
DRIER NW FLOW SUNDAY. MODEL SOUNDINGS SHOW AMS NOT AS UNSTABLE
SUNDAY AFTERNOON AS PAST FEW DAYS...BUT WE WILL STILL BE IN VICINITY
OF UPPER LOW. WITH SOME SOLAR HEATING AND STILL COOL AIR ALOFT...AND
CYCLONIC FLOW...WILL KEEP SMALL CHANCE OF SHOWERS IN FORECAST....BUT
PROBABLY NOT AS WIDESPREAD AS PAST FEW DAYS. UPPER LOW FINALLY MOVES
INTO ERN CANADA BY MONDAY.

A LOT OF UNCERTAINTY IN EXTENDED SO WILL GO WITH NCEP GUIDANCE FOR
NOW.

.CHI...NONE.

ALLSOPP

In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 26, 11:59 AM CDT, 3 hours 48 minutes before
ILZ003>006-008-010>014-019>023-032>033-039-INZ001>002-010>011-019-
271700-

SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHICAGO IL
1200 PM CDT/EST SAT MAY 26 2001

FOR NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST ILLINOIS AND NORTHWEST INDIANA...

NO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH MONDAY.

LOW PRESSURE NEAR THE QUAD CITIES AT NOON...WILL MOVE EAST ALONG THE
INTERSTATE 80 CORRIDOR THIS AFTERNOON...REACHING NORTHWEST INDIANA
BY EVENING. THE LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM WILL BRING EXTENSIVE CLOUD COVER
AND A LARGE BAND OF RAIN TO MUCH OF THE AREA. THE CLOUD COVER WILL
LIMIT SOLAR HEATING AND LIMIT THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT THIS
AFTERNOON. AN ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM IS POSSIBLE NORTH OF THE BAND OF
RAIN NEAR THE WISCONSIN STATE LINE...AND SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE
POSSIBLE ON THE SOUTH EDGE OF THE RAIN AREA OVER
LIVINGSTON...FORD...IROQUOIS...AND BENTON COUNTIES...A FEW OF THESE
THUNDERSTORMS COULD PRODUCE SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS.

RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL DIMINISH THIS EVENING. THE ATMOSPHERE
WILL BECOME UNSTABLE ENOUGH SUNDAY FOR MORE SCATTERED SHOWERS AND A
FEW THUNDERSTORMS. ISOLATED SMALL HAIL IS POSSIBLE BUT SEVERE STORMS
ARE NOT EXPECTED. THE LOW WILL FINALLY MOVE EAST OF THE AREA MONDAY
AND WEAK HIGH PRESSURE WILL DEVELOP ENDING THE THREAT OF SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS.

ALLSOPP
Special weather statement, May 26, 3:18 PM CDT, 29 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.