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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 34, NWS Chicago, IL
NWS Chicago, IL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 19, 2005, 5:23 PM CDT for Cook County, Illinois. It was in force for 53 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 19, 2005, 5:23 PM CDT (22:23 UTC)
- Expired
- May 19, 2005, 6:16 PM CDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Chicago, IL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Cook County, IL
The radar
The Chicago radar (KLOT), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:26 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 210 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
- 35 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -111 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 754 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 146 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 199 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 May 19, 2:45 PM CDT, 2 hours 38 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 19, 2:45 PM CDT, 2 hours 38 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHICAGO/ROMEOVILLE IL 245 PM CDT THU MAY 19 2005 .DISCUSSION... BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING AND MOVING THROUGH NRN IL IN AREA THAT GOT PRETTY GOOD INSOLATION THE LAST FEW HOURS. DEWPOINTS OVER WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS ARE MARGINAL BUT THERE IS A PRETTY GOOD MOIST AXIS ACROSS EAST HALF OF IL. THUNDERSTORMS WITH POTENTIAL FOR LARGE HAIL WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE ACROSS THE AREA NEXT FEW HOURS. THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD DIMINISH THIS EVENING WITH LACK OF HEATING AND AS UPPER LOW DROPS SE INTO INDIANA. DRYING OUT FRIDAY WITH RIDGING ACROSS WESTERN GREAT LAKES AREA. NORTHEAST WIND SHOULD BRING MORE SIGNIFICANT LAKE COOLING THAN LAST 2 DAYS. NEXT SYSTEM COMING IN SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY WITH ANOTHER UPPER LOW DEVELOPING AND DROPPING SE. CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS LATE SATURDAY NIGHT INTO SUNDAY MORNING...THEN SHOWERS POSSIBLE SUNDAY AFTERNOON AS UPPER LOW AND COLD POOL DROP SE ACROSS THE AREA. LOOKS LIKE A PROLONGED PERIOD OF CLOUDINESS INTO MON AND TUE AS UPPER LOW WOBBLES AROUND NE STATES BUT WILL NOT HAVE ANY PRECIP IN FORECAST. NEXT CHANCE OF RAIN LOOKS TO BE WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY. SEASONABLE TEMPS BUT LAKE COOLING ALMOST EVERYDAY FOR THE NEXT WEEK. ALLSOPP && .AVIATION... FOR 18Z TAFS...GOOD CYCLONIC CIRCULATION OVER TERMINALS TODAY. AS SFC TROF FROM WI POKES SE INTO NRN IL. THIS PROGGED TO SLOWLY DROP SOUTH AND EAST THRU TNGT. MRNG FORMATION OF LOW SC IN CNTRL IL SHIFTING EAST NOW AND OPENING NRN IL TO DIURNAL HEATING. ALREADY SHOWERS DEVELOPING NEAR DBQ. CUD BE SOME TSTMS POTENTIAL HERE BUT EXPECT BETTER CAPES SOUTH AND EAST OF TERMINALS THIS AFTN. AM LEAVING TSTMS ACTIVITY OUT OF TERMINALS FOR NOW. WILL AMEND AS DEVELOPMENT GETS UNDERWAY TO SEE COVERAGE AND LOCATION. APPEARS TO BE FORMING ON LEADING EDGE OF AC SWINGING EAST ACROSS SRN WI NRN IL. THIS WUD BE IN ORD VCNTY BTWN 2-3PM. SFC WINDS SHIFTING TO NORTH BY EVENING AS LOW DROPS SOUTH AND EAST. IFR CIGS AND MVFR VSBY IN WI SHUD MOVE OVER BORDER SHORTLY THEREAFTER AND MOVE INTO TERMINALS OVERNIGHT. AS HIGH BUILDS DOWN THRU WI/LK MICH FRIDAY...SHUD SEE SOME DRYING TO LIFT IFR CIGS AND MVFR VSBYS BY NOONTIME. THIS QUESTIONABLE BUT WILL GO ALONG WITH ETA GUIDANCE THIS FAR OUT. && .LOT...WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... .IL...NONE. .IN...NONE. .LK MI...NONE.
Hazardous weather outlook, May 19, 4:00 PM CDT, 1 hour 23 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHICAGO/ROMEOVILLE IL 400 PM CDT THU MAY 19 2005 ILZ003>006-008-010>014-019>022-023-032-033-039-INZ001-002-010-011-019 -201100- 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 PM CDT THU MAY 19 2005 THIS PORTION OF THE HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST ILLINOIS...AND NORTHWEST INDIANA. .DAY ONE... TONIGHT THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS EVENING UNTIL ABOUT 900 PM. THE MAIN THREAT IS LARGE HAIL. WEAK LOW PRESSURE FROM WESTERN WISCONSIN TO NORTHERN ILLINOIS WILL MOVE SOUTHEAST LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING. WARM MOIST UNSTABLE AIR WILL BE OVER THE EAST HALF OF ILLINOIS AND NORTHERN INDIANA. THE THUNDERSTORM THREAT WILL DIMINISH AFTER SUNSET AS THE ATMOSPHERE STABILIZES AND THE LOW MOVES SOUTHEAST. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS LATE SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...AND AGAIN WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS WILL BE NEEDED THIS EVENING. && COMPLETE FORECAST INFORMATION IS AVAILABLE ON THE NWS CHICAGO WEBPAGE: WEATHER.GOV/CHICAGO (LOWER CASE) LMZ740>746-766-201100- WINTHROP HARBOR IL TO NEW BUFFALO MI- LAKE MICHIGAN- 400 PM CDT THU MAY 19 2005 THIS PORTION OF THE HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE ILLINOIS AND INDIANA WATERS OF LAKE MICHIGAN. .DAY ONE... TODAY AND TONIGHT THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS EVENING UNTIL ABOUT 900 PM. THE MAIN THREAT IS LARGE HAIL. A SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT TONIGHT FOR THE ILLINOIS AND INDIANA NEAR SHORE WATERS FOR HAZARDOUS WINDS AND WAVES. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS LATE SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...AND AGAIN WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT. && COMPLETE FORECAST INFORMATION IS AVAILABLE ON THE NWS CHICAGO WEBPAGE: WEATHER.GOV/CHICAGO (LOWER CASE) ALLSOPP
In the hours 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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| May 19, 3:52 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LOT | 113 min | |
| May 19, 3:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | DeKalb, Kane, Kendall | 36 min |
| May 19, 3:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Boone, Winnebago | 23 min |
| May 19, 4:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Kendall | 38 min |
| May 19, 4:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Boone | 34 min |
| May 19, 4:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Will | 51 min |
| May 19, 4:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | McHenry | 57 min |
| May 19, 4:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Winnebago | 46 min |
| May 19, 5:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Lake | 44 min |
| May 19, 5:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Will | 4 min |
| May 19, 5:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Kankakee, Will | 26 min |
| May 19, 5:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Iroquois, Kankakee | 67 min |
| May 19, 6:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Iroquois | 41 min |
| May 19, 6:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Benton | 54 min |
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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.