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Lake Effect Snow Warning 2, NWS Chicago, IL
NWS Chicago, IL issued this lake effect snow warning at Jan 20, 2014, 12:47 PM CST for Lake County, Indiana. It took effect at Jan 20, 2014, 11:00 PM CST. It was in force for 18 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
- Jan 20, 2014, 12:47 PM CST (18:47 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 20, 2014, 11:00 PM CST
- Expired
- Jan 21, 2014, 5:00 PM CST
- In force
- 18 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Chicago, IL
County Lake County, IN
The radar
The Chicago radar (KLOT), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:48 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
Davenport, (KDVN), launched 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 260 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
- 840 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 81 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -177 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -126 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this lake effect snow 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 lake effect snow warning went out at Jan 20, 11:51 AM CST, 56 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 20, 11:51 AM CST, 56 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jan 20, 5:31 AM CST, 7 hours 16 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHICAGO/ROMEOVILLE IL 531 AM CST MON JAN 20 2014 ILZ003>006-008-010>014-019>023-032-033-039-INZ001-002-010-011-019- 211145- WINNEBAGO-BOONE-MCHENRY-LAKE ILLINOIS-OGLE-LEE-DE KALB-KANE- DUPAGE-COOK-LA SALLE-KENDALL-GRUNDY-WILL-KANKAKEE-LIVINGSTON- IROQUOIS-FORD-LAKE INDIANA-PORTER-NEWTON-JASPER-BENTON- 531 AM CST MON JAN 20 2014 /631 AM EST MON JAN 20 2014/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH CENTRAL ILLINOIS... NORTHEAST ILLINOIS AND NORTHWEST INDIANA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. SOME LIGHT ACCUMULATING SNOW IS POSSIBLE ACROSS THE AREA...MAINLY LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. AN INTENSE BAND OF LAKE EFFECT SNOW IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP TONIGHT ALONG THE SOUTHERN END OF LAKE MICHIGAN. THIS BAND OF SNOW COULD IMPACT PORTIONS OF COOK COUNTY IN ILLINOIS...AND LAKE AND PORTER COUNTIES IN INDIANA TONIGHT. EASTERN WILL...NORTHERN NEWTON AND NORTHERN JASPER COUNTIES MAY ALSO RECEIVE ACCUMULATING SNOW FROM THIS BAND OF LAKE EFFECT SNOW. VERY COLD CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED TO OVERSPREAD MUCH OF THE AREA TONIGHT. WIND CHILLS DOWN AROUND 20 BELOW ARE EXPECTED ACROSS NORTH CENTRAL AND PORTIONS OF NORTHEASTERN ILLINOIS LATE TONIGHT. LOCALIZED RIVER FLOODING WILL REMAIN POSSIBLE...ESPECIALLY NEAR ANY ISOLATED ICE JAMS...PARTICULARLY ALONG THE KANKAKEE RIVER. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. THE INTENSE LAKE EFFECT BAND OF SNOW WILL PERSIST INTO TUESDAY...MAINLY ACROSS LAKE AND PORTER COUNTIES IN INDIANA. WIND CHILLS DOWN AROUND 20 BELOW ARE EXPECTED ACROSS NORTH CENTRAL AND PORTIONS OF NORTHEASTERN ILLINOIS TUESDAY MORNING. OVERNIGHT AND EARLY MORNING WIND CHILLS COULD AGAIN DROP BELOW -20 TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY MORNING. IN ADDITION...LOCALIZED RIVER FLOODING WILL REMAIN POSSIBLE...ESPECIALLY NEAR ISOLATED ICE JAMS...PARTICULARLY ALONG THE KANKAKEE RIVER. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NECESSARY THROUGH TONIGHT. && LMZ740>745-211145- WINTHROP HARBOR TO WILMETTE HARBOR- WILMETTE HARBOR TO NORTHERLY ISLAND- NORTHERLY ISLAND TO CALUMET HARBOR-CALUMET HARBOR TO GARY- GARY TO BURNS HARBOR-BURNS HARBOR TO MICHIGAN CITY- 531 AM CST MON JAN 20 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE ILLINOIS NEARSHORE WATERS OF LAKE MICHIGAN AND THE INDIANA NEARSHORE WATERS OF LAKE MICHIGAN. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. WINDS AND WAVES WILL BE HAZARDOUS TO SMALL CRAFT THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. STRONG WINDS AND HIGH WAVES WILL CONTINUE TO LEAD TO HAZARDOUS CONDITIONS FOR SMALL CRAFT THROUGH TUESDAY EVENING. WINDS AND WAVES MAY BE HAZARDOUS TO SMALL CRAFT PERIODICALLY FROM WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY. GALE FORCE GUSTS ARE POSSIBLE FRIDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING PRIMARILY OVER THE INDIANA NEARSHORE WATERS. && LMZ080-261-362-364-366-563-565-567-669-671-673-675-777-779-868- 870-872-874-876-878-211145- LAKE MICHIGAN FROM MICHIGAN CITY IN TO ST. JOSEPH MI 5 NM OFFSHORE TO MID LAKE- LAKE MICHIGAN FROM SEUL CHOIX POINT TO ROCK ISLAND PASSAGE 5 NM OFFSHORE TO MID LAKE- LAKE MICHIGAN SOUTH OF A LINE FROM SEUL CHOIX POINT TO THE MACKINAC BRIDGE AND NORTH OF A LINE FROM CHARLEVOIX MI TO SOUTH FOX ISLAND 5 NM OFFSHORE- LAKE MICHIGAN FROM CHARLEVOIX TO POINT BETSIE MI 5 NM OFFSHORE TO MID LAKE- LAKE MICHIGAN FROM POINT BETSIE TO MANISTEE MI 5 NM OFFSHORE TO MID LAKE- LAKE MICHIGAN FROM ROCK ISLAND PASSAGE TO STURGEON BAY WI- LAKE MICHIGAN FROM STURGEON BAY TO TWO RIVERS WI 5 NM OFFSHORE TO MID LAKE- LAKE MICHIGAN FROM TWO RIVERS TO SHEBOYGAN WI 5 NM OFFSHORE TO MID LAKE- LAKE MICHIGAN FROM SHEBOYGAN TO PORT WASHINGTON WI 5 NM OFFSHORE TO MID LAKE- LAKE MICHIGAN FROM PORT WASHINGTON TO NORTH POINT LIGHT WI 5 NM OFFSHORE TO MID LAKE- LAKE MICHIGAN FROM NORTH POINT LIGHT TO WIND POINT WI 5 NM OFFSHORE TO MID LAKE- LAKE MICHIGAN FROM WIND POINT WI TO WINTHROP HARBOR IL 5 NM OFFSHORE TO MID LAKE- LAKE MICHIGAN FROM WINTHROP HARBOR TO WILMETTE HARBOR IL 5 NM OFFSHORE TO MID LAKE- LAKE MICHIGAN FROM WILMETTE HARBOR IL TO MICHIGAN CITY IN 5 NM OFFSHORE TO MID LAKE- LAKE MICHIGAN FROM PENTWATER TO MANISTEE MI 5 NM OFFSHORE TO MID LAKE- LAKE MICHIGAN FROM WHITEHALL TO PENTWATER MI 5 NM OFFSHORE TO MID LAKE- LAKE MICHIGAN FROM GRAND HAVEN TO WHITEHALL MI 5 NM OFFSHORE TO MID LAKE- LAKE MICHIGAN FROM HOLLAND TO GRAND HAVEN MI 5 NM OFFSHORE TO MID LAKE- LAKE MICHIGAN FROM SOUTH HAVEN TO HOLLAND MI 5 NM OFFSHORE TO MID LAKE- LAKE MICHIGAN FROM ST. JOSEPH TO SOUTH HAVEN MI 5 NM OFFSHORE TO MID LAKE- 531 AM CST MON JAN 20 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE OPEN WATERS OF LAKE MICHIGAN. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. GALE FORCE WINDS AND HEAVY FREEZING SPRAY ARE POSSIBLE THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY EVENING. && KJB VISIT US AT HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/CHICAGO (ALL LOWERCASE) FOLLOW US ON FACEBOOK...TWITTER...AND YOUTUBE AT: WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/US.NATIONALWEATHERSERVICE.CHICAGO.GOV WWW.TWITTER.COM/NWSCHICAGO WWW.YOUTUBE.COM/NWSCHICAGO
The office that day
Everything else NWS Chicago, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 20, 3:22 AM CST | Small Craft Advisory | LOT | 42 hr | |
| Jan 20, 3:58 AM CST | Wind Chill Advisory | LOT | Boone, DeKalb, Kane, Lake, LaSalle, Lee and 3 more | 30 hr |
| Jan 20, 12:47 PM CST | Lake Effect Snow Advisory | LOT | Lake | 32 hr |
Nearby
Lake Effect Snow Warnings in Indiana, 2014Lake Effect Snow Warnings in Illinois, 2014Every lake effect snow warning in 2014
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.