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Flash Flood Warning 16, NWS Chicago, IL

August 8, 2022DeKalb County, Ogle County, Illinois

NWS Chicago, IL issued this flash flood warning at Aug 8, 2022, 6:01 AM CDT for DeKalb County, Ogle County, Illinois. It was in force for 4 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 8, 2022, 6:01 AM CDT (11:01 UTC)
Expired
Aug 8, 2022, 10:00 AM CDT
In force
4 hr
Issued by
NWS Chicago, IL
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

Counties DeKalb County, IL, Ogle County, IL

The radar

The Chicago radar (KLOT), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:00 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

Davenport, (KDVN), launched 00:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 127 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, Davenport, at 00:00Z on 2022-08-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1298 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Davenport, at 00:00Z on 2022-08-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 183 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
1298 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-84 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
916 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
183 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
278 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
6.3

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flash flood warning 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 flash flood warning went out at Aug 7, 6:43 PM CDT, 11 hours 18 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 7, 6:43 PM CDT, 11 hours 18 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 8, 3:57 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningLOTBoone, Winnebago4 hr
Aug 8, 5:14 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryLOTDeKalb, Ogle4 hr
Aug 8, 6:54 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLOTOgle36 min
Aug 8, 7:06 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningLOTDeKalb, Lee, Ogle3 hr
Aug 8, 8:05 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLOTLee40 min
Aug 8, 8:09 AM CDTAreal Flood WarningLOTBoone, DeKalb, Ogle, Winnebago3 hr
Aug 8, 8:33 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryLOTLee4 hr
Aug 8, 9:46 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryLOTDeKalb, LaSalle3 hr
Aug 8, 9:50 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningLOTWinnebago9 days
Aug 8, 10:04 AM CDTFlood WatchLOTGrundy, Kendall, LaSalle, Will3 hr
Aug 8, 10:25 AM CDTAreal Flood WarningLOTOgle3 hr
Aug 8, 10:30 AM CDTAreal Flood WarningLOTDeKalb, Lee, Ogle3 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.