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Winter Storm Warning 5, NWS Chicago, IL
NWS Chicago, IL issued this winter storm warning at Dec 13, 2013, 10:33 AM CST for Ford County, Iroquois County, Illinois; Benton County, Jasper County, Newton County, Indiana. It took effect at Dec 13, 2013, 6:00 PM CST. It was in force for 21 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 13, 2013, 10:33 AM CST (16:33 UTC)
- In effect from
- Dec 13, 2013, 6:00 PM CST
- Expired
- Dec 14, 2013, 2:49 PM CST
- In force
- 21 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Chicago, IL
Counties Ford County, IL, Iroquois County, IL, Benton County, IN, Jasper County, IN, Newton County, IN
The radar
The Chicago radar (KLOT), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:34 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 12:00Z, 4.6 hours before the alert went out and 112 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
- 0 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 81 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 289 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this winter storm 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 winter storm warning went out at Dec 13, 9:38 AM CST, 55 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 13, 9:38 AM CST, 55 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Chicago, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 12, 7:50 PM CST | Winter Weather Advisory | LOT | DuPage, Ford, Grundy, Iroquois, Kane, Kankakee and 3 more | 46 hr |
| Dec 13, 3:34 AM CST | Small Craft Advisory | LOT | 35 hr |
Nearby
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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.