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High Wind Watch 1, NWS Chicago, IL
NWS Chicago, IL issued this high wind watch at Mar 15, 2016, 3:50 AM CDT for 12 counties in Illinois; Lake County, Porter County, Indiana. It took effect at Mar 16, 2016, 7:00 AM CDT. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 15, 2016, 3:50 AM CDT (08:50 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 16, 2016, 7:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Mar 16, 2016, 3:58 AM CDT
- In force
- 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, Lake County, IN, Porter County, IN
The radar
The Chicago radar (KLOT), 42 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:56 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 00:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 172 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
- 750 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 83 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 111 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 Mar 15, 3:48 AM CDT, 2 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 15, 3:48 AM CDT, 2 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Chicago, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 15, 2:54 AM CDT | Gale Warning | LOT | 54 hr | |
| Mar 15, 2:54 AM CDT | Small Craft Advisory | LOT | 22 hr | |
| Mar 15, 2:54 AM CDT | Storm Watch | LOT | 24 hr | |
| Mar 15, 1:10 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LOT | Winnebago | 50 min |
| Mar 15, 1:56 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LOT | Boone | 49 min |
| Mar 15, 3:06 PM CDT | Wind Advisory | LOT | Boone, DeKalb, DuPage, Ford, Grundy, Iroquois and 10 more | 29 hr |
Nearby
High Wind Watches in Illinois, 2016High Wind Watches in Indiana, 2016Every high wind watch in 2016
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.