Alert archive / Illinois / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 19, NWS Chicago, IL
NWS Chicago, IL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 12, 2001, 12:59 AM CDT for Cook County, Will County, Illinois; Lake County, Indiana. It was in force for 31 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
- Jun 12, 2001, 12:59 AM CDT (05:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 12, 2001, 1:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Chicago, IL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Cook County, IL, Will County, IL, Lake County, IN
The radar
The Chicago radar (KLOT), 35 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:59 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 10:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 180 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
- 3690 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -13 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1398 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 32 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 65 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 5.7
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 Jun 11, 9:18 PM CDT, 3 hours 41 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 11, 9:18 PM CDT, 3 hours 41 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHICAGO IL 918 PM CDT MON JUN 11 2001 ZONES UPDATED TO REFLECT SE TURN OF DEVELOPING BOW ECHO OVER C WISCONSIN. STORMS SHOULD CONTINUE TO TURN SE AND MOVE ALONG/JUST NORTH OF WARM FRONT AT 9 PM FROM AROUND LSE-JVL-ARR-VPZ. VERY UNSTABLE ON WARM SIDE WITH 8 PM CAPES OVER 4000 AND SE SFC-6KM SHEAR VECTOR OF 65 KTS OVER SW WI. CORFIDI VECTORS SHOWED THIS TURN NICELY. IMMEDIATE LAKE SHORE MAgY BE STABILIZED A BIT BY LAKE BREEZE. AF
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 12, 12:38 AM CDT, 21 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Chicago, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Jun 11, 10:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Boone, DeKalb, Ogle, Winnebago | 67 min |
| Jun 11, 10:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Cook, Kane, McHenry | 67 min |
| Jun 11, 10:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Lake | 67 min |
| Jun 11, 11:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Cook, DuPage, Kane, Lake, McHenry | 32 min |
| Jun 11, 11:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Boone, DeKalb, Ogle, Winnebago | 32 min |
| Jun 12, 12:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Cook, DuPage, Kane | 28 min |
| Jun 12, 12:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Cook, DuPage, Kane, Kendall, Will | 32 min |
| Jun 12, 11:56 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Lee | 34 min |
| Jun 12, 12:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | DeKalb, LaSalle, Lee | 32 min |
| Jun 12, 12:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Porter | 32 min |
| Jun 12, 12:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Jasper, Porter | 31 min |
| Jun 12, 12:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Newton | 31 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Illinois, 2001Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Indiana, 2001Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2001
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.