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Beach Hazards Statement 6, NWS Chicago, IL

July 7, 2022Cook County, Lake County, Illinois; Lake County, Porter County, Indiana

NWS Chicago, IL issued this beach hazards statement at Jul 7, 2022, 3:44 PM CDT for Cook County, Lake County, Illinois; Lake County, Porter County, Indiana. It took effect at Jul 8, 2022, 4:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 30 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 7, 2022, 3:44 PM CDT (20:44 UTC)
In effect from
Jul 8, 2022, 4:00 PM CDT
Expired
Jul 9, 2022, 10:00 PM CDT
In force
30 hr
Issued by
NWS Chicago, IL

Counties Cook County, IL, Lake County, IL, Lake County, IN, Porter County, IN

The radar

The Chicago radar (KLOT), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:47 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, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 301 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, Green Bay/Straub, WI at 12:00Z on 2022-07-07Temperature 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, Green Bay/Straub, WI at 12:00Z on 2022-07-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 45 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
1109 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
45 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
79 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
Jul 7, 3:38 PM CDTSmall Craft AdvisoryLOT54 hr
Jul 7, 6:19 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryLOTLaSalle3 hr

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.