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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 94, NWS Chicago, IL
NWS Chicago, IL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 2006, 10:54 PM CDT for Kankakee County, Illinois. It was in force for 23 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 24, 2006, 10:54 PM CDT (03:54 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 2006, 11:17 PM CDT
- In force
- 23 min
- Issued by
- NWS Chicago, IL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Kankakee County, IL
The radar
The Chicago radar (KLOT), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:56 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 126 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
- 1105 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -58 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1025 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 210 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 288 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.5
- Supercell composite
- 7.2
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 24, 6:47 PM CDT, 4 hours 7 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 24, 6:47 PM CDT, 4 hours 7 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHICAGO/ROMEOVILLE IL 430 PM CDT WED MAY 24 2006 ILZ003>006-008-010>014-019>022-023-032-033-039-INZ001-002-010-011- 019-250930- 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- 430 PM CDT WED MAY 24 2006 THIS PORTION OF THE HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST ILLINOIS...AND NORTHWEST INDIANA. .DAY ONE... TONIGHT THERE IS A MODERATE RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS EVENING FOR LOCATIONS GENERALLY WEST OF INTERSTATE 39. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE REMAINDER OF THE FORECAST AREA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS WEST CENTRAL ILLINOIS ARE EXPECTED TO MOVE NORTHEAST INTO THE FORECAST AREA THIS EVENING. ADDITIONAL SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ACROSS EASTERN IOWA THIS EVENING...MOVING INTO NORTH CENTRAL ILLINOIS AFTER 7 PM. THE MAIN THREATS WITH THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS...ALTHOUGH AN ISOLATED TORNADO IS POSSIBLE. THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER SHOULD DIMINISH BY MIDNIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS ON THURSDAY. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BE SEVERE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL LIKELY BE NEEDED THIS EVENING. && COMPLETE FORECAST INFORMATION IS AVAILABLE ON THE NWS CHICAGO WEBPAGE: WEATHER.GOV/CHICAGO (LOWER CASE) LMZ740>745-766-250930- WINTHROP HARBOR IL TO MICHIGAN CITY IN- LAKE MICHIGAN- 430 PM CDT WED MAY 24 2006 THIS PORTION OF THE HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE ILLINOIS AND INDIANA WATERS OF LAKE MICHIGAN. .DAY ONE... TONIGHT SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CAN BE EXPECTED THIS EVENING...WITH A SLIGHT CHANCE THAT A FEW OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY BE SEVERE PRODUCING HAIL AND WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 35 KNOTS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH THURSDAY. NO ADDITIONAL SEVERE WEATHER IS EXPECTED. && COMPLETE FORECAST INFORMATION IS AVAILABLE ON THE NWS CHICAGO WEBPAGE: WEATHER.GOV/CHICAGO (LOWER CASE)
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Chicago, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 7:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Ogle, Winnebago | 45 min |
| May 24, 7:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Lee, Ogle | 68 min |
| May 24, 8:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | DeKalb, Kane, McHenry | 59 min |
| May 24, 8:39 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LOT | 2 hr | |
| May 24, 8:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Cook, DeKalb, DuPage, Kane | 80 min |
| May 24, 10:47 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LOT | 58 min | |
| May 24, 11:52 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LOT | 83 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.