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Special Weather Statement, NWS Chicago, IL
NWS Chicago, IL issued this special weather statement at Apr 8, 2020, 4:02 PM CDT for LaSalle County, Illinois. It was in force for 28 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 8, 2020, 4:02 PM CDT (21:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 8, 2020, 4:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Chicago, IL
County LaSalle County, IL
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The local office's own words before this special weather 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 special weather statement went out at Apr 8, 3:11 PM CDT, 51 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 8, 3:11 PM CDT, 51 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Apr 8, 4:02 PM CDT, 0 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Chicago, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Apr 7, 7:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Boone, Winnebago | 59 min |
| Apr 7, 7:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | DeKalb, Kane, McHenry, Ogle | 48 min |
| Apr 7, 8:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Cook | 28 min |
| Apr 7, 8:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Cook, DuPage | 45 min |
| Apr 7, 8:27 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LOT | DeKalb | 18 min |
| Apr 7, 8:28 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LOT | 47 min | |
| Apr 7, 8:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | DeKalb, Kane | 25 min |
| Apr 7, 8:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Cook | 50 min |
| Apr 7, 9:13 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LOT | Cook | 3 hr |
| Apr 7, 9:13 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LOT | DuPage | 17 min |
| Apr 7, 9:27 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LOT | DuPage | 18 min |
| Apr 8, 3:45 AM CDT | Gale Watch | LOT | 18 hr | |
| Apr 8, 3:45 AM CDT | Marine Dense Fog Advisory | LOT | 6 hr | |
| Apr 8, 3:45 AM CDT | Small Craft Advisory | LOT | 27 hr | |
| Apr 8, 4:16 AM CDT | Dense Fog Advisory | LOT | Boone, DeKalb, Lee, McHenry, Ogle, Winnebago | 5 hr |
| Apr 8, 9:37 AM CDT | Marine Dense Fog Advisory | LOT | 9 hr | |
| Apr 8, 4:20 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LOT | Kane | 25 min |
| Apr 8, 4:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Cook, DeKalb, DuPage, Kane, Lake, McHenry | 23 min |
| Apr 8, 4:54 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LOT | 66 min | |
| Apr 8, 4:59 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LOT | Cook, Lake | 16 min |
| Apr 8, 5:08 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LOT | DeKalb | 37 min |
| Apr 8, 5:38 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LOT | Kane, Kendall | 22 min |
| Apr 7, 8:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Lake, Porter | 41 min |
| Apr 7, 8:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Lake, Porter | 65 min |
| Apr 7, 9:57 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LOT | Lake | 33 min |
| Apr 8, 6:40 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LOT | Benton | 20 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.