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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 73, NWS Chicago, IL

October 7, 2018Ford County, Illinois

NWS Chicago, IL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 7, 2018, 5:33 PM CDT for Ford County, Illinois. It was in force for 42 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
Oct 7, 2018, 5:33 PM CDT (22:33 UTC)
Expired
Oct 7, 2018, 6:15 PM CDT
In force
42 min
Issued by
NWS Chicago, IL
Area
Storm-based polygon
Tornado
Possible
Hail
1.0 in
Wind
60.0 mph

County Ford County, IL

The radar

The Lincoln radar (KILX), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:32 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, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 59 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 2018-10-07Temperature 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 2018-10-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 119 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
470 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
119 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
127 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
Oct 7, 11:01 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningLOTBoone30 hr
Oct 7, 2:40 PM CDTFlash Flood WatchLOTBoone, DeKalb, LaSalle, Lee, Ogle, Winnebago13 hr
Oct 7, 2:44 PM CDTRiver Flood WarningLOTWinnebago34 hr
Oct 7, 6:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLOTFord, Iroquois26 min

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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.