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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 99, NWS Chicago, IL

June 29, 2017Iroquois County, Illinois

NWS Chicago, IL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 29, 2017, 5:58 PM CDT for Iroquois County, Illinois. It was in force for 29 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 29, 2017, 5:58 PM CDT (22:58 UTC)
Expired
Jun 29, 2017, 6:27 PM CDT
In force
29 min
Issued by
NWS Chicago, IL
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.0 in
Wind
60.0 mph

County Iroquois County, IL

The radar

The Chicago radar (KLOT), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:57 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 93 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 2017-06-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 2017-06-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 97 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
1213 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
97 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-70 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 29, 3:33 PM CDT, 2 hours 25 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 29, 3:33 PM CDT, 2 hours 25 minutes before
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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 29, 4:26 PM CDT, 1 hour 32 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 28, 7:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLOTBoone, Winnebago65 min
Jun 28, 7:40 PM CDTTornado WarningLOTWinnebago20 min
Jun 28, 7:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLOTBoone, DeKalb, Kane, McHenry, Ogle, Winnebago65 min
Jun 28, 8:03 PM CDTFlash Flood WatchLOTBoone, DeKalb, DuPage, Kane, Lake, Lee and 3 more8 hr
Jun 28, 8:07 PM CDTSpecial Marine WarningLOT3 hr
Jun 28, 8:19 PM CDTTornado WarningLOTBoone, DeKalb26 min
Jun 28, 8:24 PM CDTFlash Flood Warning EmergencyLOTBoone, Winnebago6 hr
Jun 28, 8:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLOTLake50 min
Jun 28, 8:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLOTCook, DeKalb, DuPage, Kane, McHenry52 min
Jun 28, 9:09 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLOTLake, McHenry6 hr
Jun 28, 10:47 PM CDTRiver Flood AdvisoryLOTBoone3 days
Jun 28, 11:36 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLOTDuPage24 min
Jun 28, 11:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLOTCook, DuPage34 min
Jun 28, 11:58 PM CDTSpecial Marine WarningLOT92 min
Jun 29, 2:28 AM CDTAreal Flood WarningLOTBoone, Winnebago15 hr
Jun 29, 4:39 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningLOTBoone30 hr
Jun 29, 4:39 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningLOTWinnebago41 hr
Jun 29, 6:05 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningLOTOgle39 hr
Jun 29, 9:25 AM CDTRiver Flood AdvisoryLOTWinnebago59 hr
Jun 29, 9:25 AM CDTRiver Flood AdvisoryLOTWinnebago36 hr
Jun 29, 9:25 AM CDTRiver Flood AdvisoryLOTLee71 hr
Jun 29, 9:32 AM CDTRiver Flood WatchLOTWinnebago4 days
Jun 29, 10:02 AM CDTRiver Flood AdvisoryLOTKane, Kendall36 hr
Jun 29, 10:02 AM CDTRiver Flood AdvisoryLOTCook36 hr
Jun 29, 6:03 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLOTFord27 min
Jun 29, 6:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLOTFord14 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Illinois, 2017Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2017

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.