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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 141, NWS Chicago, IL
NWS Chicago, IL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 21, 2004, 9:12 AM CDT for Ogle County, Illinois. It was in force for 48 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
- Jul 21, 2004, 9:12 AM CDT (14:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 21, 2004, 10:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Chicago, IL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Ogle County, IL
The radar
The Chicago radar (KLOT), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:12 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
Davenport, (KDVN), launched 12:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 108 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
- 2834 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -90 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 865 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 106 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 128 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Jul 21, 5:45 AM CDT, 3 hours 27 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 21, 5:45 AM CDT, 3 hours 27 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 21, 4:00 AM CDT, 5 hours 12 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHICAGO IL 400 AM CDT WED JUL 21 2004 ILZ003>006-008-010>014-019>022-023-032-033-039-INZ001-002-010-011-019-221100- WINNEBAGO-BOONE-MCHENRY-LAKE IL-OGLE-LEE-DE KALB-KANE-DU PAGE-COOK- LA SALLE-KENDALL-GRUNDY-WILL-KANKAKEE-LIVINGSTON-IROQUOIS-FORD- LAKE IN-PORTER-NEWTON-JASPER-BENTON- 400 AM CDT WED JUL 21 2004 THIS PORTION OF THE HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST ILLINOIS...AND NORTHWEST INDIANA. .DAY ONE... TODAY AND TONIGHT SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY TODAY AND THIS EVENING. A LARGE COMPLEX OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE EAST OUT OF NORTHEAST IOWA INTO NORTHERN ILLINOIS LATER THIS MORNING. FOR NORTHERN ILLINOIS...THE LEADING EDGE OF THE COMPLEX WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS AND LOCALLY LARGE RAINFALL AMOUNTS... PRIMARILY NORTH OF INTERSTATE 80. AS THE COMPLEX MOVES EAST INTO NORTHEAST ILLINOIS IT WILL PRODUCE AN OUTFLOW BOUNDARY. THIS BOUNDARY WILL SERVE AS A FOCUS FOR RENEWED THUNDERSTORM DEVELOP INTO THE AFTERNOON...PRIMARILY ALONG AND SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 88. LARGE HAIL..LOCALLY LARGE RAINFALL AMOUNTS AND DAMAGING WINDS WILL BE THE MAIN CONCERNS. THE AFTERNOON ACTIVITY SHOULD TAPER OFF FROM WEST TO EAST THIS EVENING. IN NORTHWEST INDIANA THE THUNDERSTORM COMPLEX SHOULD NOT ARRIVE UNTIL LATE MORNING OR EARLY AFTERNOON. THE LATER ARRIVAL WILL ALLOW FOR ADDITIONAL DAYTIME HEATING WHICH WILL ENHANCE ATMOSPHERIC DESTABILIZATION. THE ADDED INSTABILITY WILL CONTRIBUTE TO A VERY LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND THREAT. LOCALLY LARGE RAINFALL AMOUNTS ARE ALSO ANTICIPATED. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY THURSDAY AFTERNOON SHOULD SEE MORE THUNDERSTORMS AHEAD OF A COLD FRONT THAT WILL ARRIVE IN THE REGION THURSDAY EVENING. AFTER THURSDAY...THE REGION SHOULD REMAIN DRY AND RELATIVELY COOL THROUGH THE WEEKEND AND INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL LIKELY BE NEEDED LATER TODAY AND TONIGHT. && COMPLETE FORECAST INFORMATION IS AVAILABLE ON THE NWS CHICAGO WEBPAGE: WWW.CRH.NOAA.GOV/LOT (LOWER CASE) LMZ740>746-766-221100- WINTHROP HARBOR IL TO NEW BUFFALO MI- LAKE MICHIGAN- 400 AM CDT WED JUL 21 2004 THIS PORTION OF THE HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE ILLINOIS AND INDIANA WATERS OF LAKE MICHIGAN. .DAY ONE... TODAY AND TONIGHT PERIODS OF THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED LATER TODAY AND INTO THE EVENING. LOCALLY VERY HEAVY RAINFALL RATES...FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTING...HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS ARE POSSIBLE THE STORMS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY THURSDAY AFTERNOON SHOULD SEE MORE THUNDERSTORMS AHEAD OF A COLD FRONT THAT WILL ARRIVE IN THE REGION THURSDAY EVENING. AFTER THURSDAY...THE REGION SHOULD REMAIN DRY AND RELATIVELY COOL THROUGH THE WEEKEND AND INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK. && COMPLETE FORECAST INFORMATION IS AVAILABLE ON THE NWS CHICAGO WEBPAGE: WWW.CRH.NOAA.GOV/LOT (LOWER CASE)
The office that day
Everything else NWS Chicago, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 20, 7:33 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LOT | 87 min | |
| Jul 20, 7:33 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LOT | 87 min | |
| Jul 20, 7:59 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LOT | 2 hr | |
| Jul 20, 7:59 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LOT | 2 hr | |
| Jul 20, 7:59 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LOT | 2 hr | |
| Jul 21, 10:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | DeKalb, Lee | 39 min |
| Jul 21, 3:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Kane, Kendall | 63 min |
| Jul 21, 4:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | DuPage, Will | 38 min |
| Jul 21, 4:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Cook | 39 min |
| Jul 21, 4:37 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LOT | 83 min | |
| Jul 21, 4:37 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LOT | 83 min | |
| Jul 21, 5:33 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LOT | 27 min | |
| Jul 21, 6:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Will | 49 min |
| Jul 21, 5:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Lake | 42 min |
| Jul 21, 5:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Porter | 47 min |
| Jul 21, 5:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Lake | 45 min |
| Jul 21, 5:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Newton | 38 min |
| Jul 21, 6:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Jasper | 37 min |
| Jul 21, 6:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LOT | Jasper, Newton | 24 min |
| Jul 21, 6:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Porter | 39 min |
| Jul 21, 6:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LOT | Jasper | 13 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Illinois, 2004Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2004
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.