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High Wind Watch 1, NWS Chicago, IL
NWS Chicago, IL issued this high wind watch at Oct 28, 2012, 3:31 PM CDT for Lake County, Porter County, Indiana. It took effect at Oct 30, 2012, 1:00 AM CDT. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 28, 2012, 3:31 PM CDT (20:31 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 30, 2012, 1:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Oct 29, 2012, 12:13 PM CDT
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Chicago, IL
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 20:36 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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 12:00Z, 8.5 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 861 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 22 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 74 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this high wind watch 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 high wind watch went out at Oct 28, 3:16 PM CDT, 15 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 28, 3:16 PM CDT, 15 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Chicago, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 28, 4:06 AM CDT | Gale Warning | LOT | 71 hr | |
| Oct 28, 4:06 AM CDT | Storm Watch | LOT | 12 hr | |
| Oct 28, 4:17 AM CDT | Lakeshore Flood Watch | LOT | 12 hr | |
| Oct 28, 4:00 PM CDT | Lakeshore Flood Warning | LOT | 66 hr | |
| Oct 28, 4:10 PM CDT | Gale Warning | LOT | 71 hr | |
| Oct 28, 4:10 PM CDT | Storm Warning | LOT | 48 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.