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Beach Hazards Statement 1, NWS Chicago, IL

May 25, 2022Cook County, Lake County, Illinois

NWS Chicago, IL issued this beach hazards statement at May 25, 2022, 3:41 AM CDT for Cook County, Lake County, Illinois. It was in force for 17 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 25, 2022, 3:41 AM CDT (08:41 UTC)
Expired: May 25, 2022, 9:00 PM CDT
In force: 17 hr
Issued by: NWS Chicago, IL

Counties Cook County, IL, Lake County, IL

The radar

The Chicago radar (KLOT), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:41 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 00:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 264 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 2048 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 8 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 66 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 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 May 25, 3:39 AM CDT, 2 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 25, 3:39 AM CDT, 2 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 24, 2:43 PM CDT, 12 hours 58 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 25, 1:31 PM CDT	Marine Dense Fog Advisory	LOT		11 hr
May 25, 3:16 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LOT	Kane	44 min
May 25, 3:33 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LOT	DuPage	26 min
May 25, 3:48 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LOT	Cook	42 min
May 25, 4:48 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LOT	Ford	42 min
May 25, 5:18 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LOT	Iroquois	42 min
May 25, 5:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LOT	Iroquois, Kankakee	42 min
May 25, 5:44 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LOT	Ogle	31 min
May 25, 6:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LOT	Cook, Will	45 min
May 25, 6:09 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LOT	Winnebago	51 min
May 25, 6:10 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LOT		80 min
May 25, 6:24 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LOT	Winnebago	21 min

Nearby

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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.