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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 229

May 14, 200114 counties in Illinois; 10 counties in Indiana; Berrien County, Michigan

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 14, 2001, 1:00 PM CDT for 14 counties in Illinois; 10 counties in Indiana; Berrien County, Michigan. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
May 14, 2001, 1:00 PM CDT (18:00 UTC)
Expired
May 14, 2001, 4:00 PM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 25 counties

Boone County, IL, Cook County, IL, DeKalb County, IL, DuPage County, IL, Ford County, IL, Grundy County, IL, Iroquois County, IL, Kane County, IL, Kankakee County, IL, Kendall County, IL, Lake County, IL, Livingston County, IL, McHenry County, IL, Will County, IL, Benton County, IN, Carroll County, IN, Jasper County, IN, Lake County, IN, LaPorte County, IN, Newton County, IN, Porter County, IN, Pulaski County, IN, Starke County, IN, White County, IN, Berrien County, MI

The radar

The Chicago radar (KLOT), 44 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:59 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Davenport, (KDVN), launched 12:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 244 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, Davenport, at 12:00Z on 2001-05-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Davenport, at 12:00Z on 2001-05-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 212 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
774 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
57 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
212 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
389 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.

Nearby

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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.