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Wind Chill Advisory 3, NWS Quad Cities, IA

January 16, 20095 counties in Iowa; 6 counties in Illinois

NWS Quad Cities, IA issued this wind chill advisory at Jan 16, 2009, 3:09 PM CST for 5 counties in Iowa; 6 counties in Illinois. It took effect at Jan 16, 2009, 6:00 PM CST. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jan 16, 2009, 3:09 PM CST (21:09 UTC)
In effect from
Jan 16, 2009, 6:00 PM CST
Expired
Jan 17, 2009, 12:00 AM CST
In force
6 hr
Issued by
NWS Quad Cities, IA

Counties Clinton County, IA, Delaware County, IA, Dubuque County, IA, Jackson County, IA, Jones County, IA, Bureau County, IL, Carroll County, IL, Jo Daviess County, IL, Putnam County, IL, Stephenson County, IL, Whiteside County, IL

The radar

The Quad Cities radar (KDVN), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:12 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 325 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Green Bay/Straub, WI at 12:00Z on 2009-01-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Green Bay/Straub, WI at 12:00Z on 2009-01-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 117 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1717 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
117 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
143 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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.