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Tornado Warning 15, NWS Chicago, IL
NWS Chicago, IL issued this tornado warning at Apr 14, 2006, 7:34 PM CDT for Kankakee County, Livingston County, Illinois. It was in force for 26 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
- Apr 14, 2006, 7:34 PM CDT (00:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 14, 2006, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Chicago, IL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Kankakee County, IL, Livingston County, IL
The radar
The Chicago radar (KLOT), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:35 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 14, 5:19 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 102 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
- 2079 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -17 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1966 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 67 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 285 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 13.7
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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 tornado warning went out at Apr 14, 6:45 PM CDT, 49 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 14, 6:45 PM CDT, 49 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHICAGO/ROMEOVILLE IL 430 PM CDT FRI APR 14 2006 ILZ003>006-008-010>014-019>022-023-032-033-039-INZ001-002-010-011- 019-151030- 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 FRI APRIL 14 2006 THIS PORTION OF THE HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST ILLINOIS...AND NORTHWEST INDIANA. .DAY ONE... TONIGHT WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ALONG AND SOUTH OF THE KANKAKEE RIVER WILL BE ENDING EARLY THIS EVENING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... SATURDAY THROUGH SUNDAY THERE WILL BE A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS SATURDAY NIGHT INTO EARLY SUNDAY MORNING. THUNDERSTORMS ARE ALSO EXPECTED AGAIN LATE TUESDAY INTO WEDNESDAY. FEW OF THUNDERSTORMS BOTH SATURDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY EVENING MAY BE SEVERE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUESTED SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY MORNING. && COMPLETE FORECAST INFORMATION IS AVAILABLE ON THE NWS CHICAGO WEBPAGE: WEATHER.GOV/CHICAGO (LOWER CASE) LMZ740>745-766-151030- WINTHROP HARBOR IL TO MICHIGAN CITY IN- LAKE MICHIGAN- 430 PM CDT FRI APR 14 2006 THIS PORTION OF THE HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE ILLINOIS AND INDIANA WATERS OF LAKE MICHIGAN. .DAY ONE... TONIGHT THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... SATURDAY THROUGH SUNDAY THERE WILL BE A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS SATURDAY NIGHT INTO EARLY SUNDAY MORNING. THUNDERSTORMS ARE ALSO EXPECTED AGAIN LATE TUESDAY INTO WEDNESDAY. FEW OF THUNDERSTORMS BOTH SATURDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY EVENING MAY BE SEVERE. && COMPLETE FORECAST INFORMATION IS AVAILABLE ON THE NWS CHICAGO WEBPAGE: WEATHER.GOV/CHICAGO (LOWER CASE)
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Local storm report, Apr 14, 7:08 PM CDT, 26 minutes before
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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 |
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| Apr 14, 7:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Kankakee, Will | 38 min |
| Apr 14, 7:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Jasper, Newton | 47 min |
| Apr 14, 8:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Jasper, Newton | 41 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.