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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 88, NWS Chicago, IL

May 30, 2004Lee County, Illinois

NWS Chicago, IL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 30, 2004, 9:10 AM CDT for Lee County, Illinois. It was in force for 50 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 30, 2004, 9:10 AM CDT (14:10 UTC)
Expired: May 30, 2004, 10:00 AM CDT
In force: 50 min
Issued by: NWS Chicago, IL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Lee County, IL

The radar

The Chicago radar (KLOT), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:07 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 30, 6:38 AM CDT, 2 hours 32 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 30, 6:38 AM CDT, 2 hours 32 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Chicago, IL issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 30, 9:22 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LOT	LaSalle	38 min
May 30, 10:00 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LOT	Grundy, Kendall, LaSalle	60 min
May 30, 10:34 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LOT	Livingston	26 min
May 30, 10:54 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LOT	Cook	3 hr
May 30, 11:02 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LOT	Grundy, Kendall, Will	58 min
May 30, 11:25 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LOT	Livingston	50 min
May 30, 11:46 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LOT	Ford, Iroquois, Kankakee	59 min
May 30, 4:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LOT	Ford, Livingston	61 min
May 30, 4:25 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LOT	Ford, Livingston	50 min
May 30, 4:38 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LOT	Iroquois	52 min
May 30, 5:23 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LOT	Livingston	67 min
May 30, 5:25 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LOT	Iroquois	50 min
May 30, 5:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LOT	LaSalle, Lee	59 min
May 30, 5:48 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LOT		3 hr
May 30, 5:48 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LOT		3 hr
May 30, 5:48 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LOT		3 hr
May 30, 6:11 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LOT	LaSalle	34 min
May 30, 6:19 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LOT	Livingston	11 min
May 30, 6:24 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LOT	Grundy	66 min
May 30, 6:31 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LOT	Livingston	59 min
May 30, 6:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LOT	Kane, Kendall	51 min
May 30, 6:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LOT	Kankakee, Will	34 min
May 30, 6:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LOT	Ford	42 min
May 30, 6:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LOT	DuPage	40 min
May 30, 12:04 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LOT	Benton, Jasper, Lake, Newton, Porter	3 hr
May 30, 12:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LOT	Benton, Jasper, Lake, Newton, Porter	92 min
May 30, 1:21 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LOT	Benton, Jasper, Newton	39 min
May 30, 5:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LOT	Jasper, Newton, Porter	45 min
May 30, 5:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LOT	Jasper	48 min
May 30, 6:18 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LOT	Jasper	42 min
May 30, 6:54 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LOT	Newton	51 min

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.