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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 69, NWS Chicago, IL

July 16, 2009Lake County, Porter County, Indiana

NWS Chicago, IL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 16, 2009, 7:44 PM CDT for Lake County, Porter County, Indiana. It was in force for 47 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
Jul 16, 2009, 7:44 PM CDT (00:44 UTC)
Expired
Jul 16, 2009, 8:31 PM CDT
In force
47 min
Issued by
NWS Chicago, IL
Area
Storm-based polygon

Counties Lake County, IN, Porter County, IN

The radar

The Chicago radar (KLOT), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:44 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

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 189 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, Lincoln, IL at 00:00Z on 2009-07-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 257 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Lincoln, IL at 00:00Z on 2009-07-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 5 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
257 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-13 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1312 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
5 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
56 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.4

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 16, 7:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLOTCook, Will38 min
Jul 16, 9:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLOTIroquois, Kankakee31 min
Jul 17, 9:14 AM CDTSmall Craft AdvisoryLOT17 hr
Jul 17, 9:09 AM CDTLakeshore Flood StatementLOTLake, Porter17 hr

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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.