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Wind Chill Advisory 3, NWS Chicago, IL

January 8, 201512 counties in Illinois

NWS Chicago, IL issued this wind chill advisory at Jan 8, 2015, 5:38 PM CST for 12 counties in Illinois. It took effect at Jan 9, 2015, 4:00 AM CST. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jan 8, 2015, 5:38 PM CST (23:38 UTC)
In effect from
Jan 9, 2015, 4:00 AM CST
Expired
Jan 9, 2015, 10:07 AM CST
In force
6 hr
Issued by
NWS Chicago, IL

Counties Boone County, IL, DeKalb County, IL, DuPage County, IL, Grundy County, IL, Kane County, IL, Kendall County, IL, Lake County, IL, LaSalle County, IL, Lee County, IL, McHenry County, IL, Ogle County, IL, Winnebago County, IL

The radar

The Chicago radar (KLOT), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:38 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, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 197 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 12:00Z on 2015-01-08Temperature 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, Lincoln, IL at 12:00Z on 2015-01-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 129 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
1103 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
62 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
129 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
279 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 7, 6:03 PM CSTAreal Flood AdvisoryLOTKankakee24 hr
Jan 8, 4:03 AM CSTWinter Weather AdvisoryLOTBoone, DeKalb, DuPage, Ford, Grundy, Iroquois and 10 more23 hr
Jan 8, 6:16 AM CSTRiver Flood WarningLOTKankakee7 days

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.