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Beach Hazards Statement 12, NWS Chicago, IL
NWS Chicago, IL issued this beach hazards statement at Aug 25, 2019, 2:47 PM CDT for Lake County, Illinois. It took effect at Aug 26, 2019, 1:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 21 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 25, 2019, 2:47 PM CDT (19:47 UTC)
- In effect from
- Aug 26, 2019, 1:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Aug 26, 2019, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 21 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Chicago, IL
County Lake County, IL
The radar
The Chicago radar (KLOT), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:46 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
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 238 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
- 18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -13 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 753 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 7 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 8 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -26 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this beach hazards statement 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 beach hazards statement went out at Aug 25, 2:33 PM CDT, 14 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 25, 2:33 PM CDT, 14 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Chicago, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 25, 2:44 PM CDT | Small Craft Advisory | LOT | 31 hr |
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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.