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Wind Advisory 3, NWS Chicago, IL
NWS Chicago, IL issued this wind advisory at Feb 18, 2022, 3:24 AM CST for 5 counties in Illinois. It took effect at Feb 18, 2022, 2:00 PM CST. It was in force for 13 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 18, 2022, 3:24 AM CST (09:24 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 18, 2022, 2:00 PM CST
- Expired
- Feb 19, 2022, 3:00 AM CST
- In force
- 13 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Chicago, IL
Counties Boone County, IL, Lake County, IL, McHenry County, IL, Ogle County, IL, Winnebago County, IL
The radar
The Milwaukee radar (KMKX), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:27 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Davenport, (KDVN), launched 00:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 164 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1540 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -119 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -97 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this wind advisory 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 wind advisory went out at Feb 18, 2:27 AM CST, 57 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 18, 2:27 AM CST, 57 minutes before
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Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Chicago/Romeoville IL 334 PM CST Thu Feb 17 2022 ILZ003>006-008-010>013-019>021-023-032-033-039-103>108-INZ001-002- 010-011-019-182145- Winnebago-Boone-McHenry-Lake IL-Ogle-Lee-De Kalb-Kane-DuPage- La Salle-Kendall-Grundy-Kankakee-Livingston-Iroquois-Ford- Northern Cook-Central Cook-Southern Cook-Northern Will- Southern Will-Eastern Will-Lake IN-Porter-Newton-Jasper-Benton- 334 PM CST Thu Feb 17 2022 /434 PM EST Thu Feb 17 2022/ This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for portions of North Central Illinois...Northeast Illinois and Northwest Indiana. .DAY ONE...Tonight. Weather hazards expected... Significant Snow Risk Through This Evening. Elevated Lakeshore Flood Risk. Limited Excessive Cold Risk. Limited Non Thunderstorm Wind Risk. DISCUSSION... Periods of snow will continue to fall at high rates of up to an inch per hour late this afternoon, mainly to the southeast of the Rockford area. The snow will then gradually end from west to east through the evening. Gusty northerly winds will also result in near blizzard conditions at times, especially south of a Mendota to Chicago line. Patchy blowing snow could continue even after snow ends, especially in rural and open areas. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Friday through Wednesday. Friday and Saturday... Limited Excessive Cold Risk. Limited Non Thunderstorm Wind Risk. Sunday... Limited Non Thunderstorm Wind Risk. Monday night and Tuesday... Limited Ice and sleet Accumulation Risk. Wednesday... Limited Excessive Cold Risk. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation will not be necessary through tonight. LMZ740>745-182145- Winthrop Harbor to Wilmette Harbor IL- Wilmette Harbor to Northerly Island IL- Northerly Island to Calumet Harbor IL- Calumet Harbor IL to Gary IN-Gary to Burns Harbor IN- Burns Harbor to Michigan City IN- 334 PM CST Thu Feb 17 2022 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for portions of the Illinois nearshore waters of Lake Michigan and the Indiana nearshore waters of Lake Michigan. .DAY ONE...Tonight. Weather hazards expected... Gale force winds and or very hazardous waves. Limited Freezing Spray Risk. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Friday through Wednesday. Friday... Gale force winds and or very hazardous waves are likely. Limited Freezing Spray Risk. Saturday... Hazardous conditions for small craft are likely. Significant Freezing Spray Risk. Sunday and Monday... Hazardous conditions for small craft are likely. Tuesday... Hazardous conditions for small craft are likely. Limited Freezing Spray Risk. Wednesday... Limited Freezing Spray Risk. KJB Visit us at www.weather.gov/chicago Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube at: www.facebook.com/nwschicago www.twitter.com/nwschicago www.youtube.com/nwschicago
In the hours before
Local storm report, Feb 17, 9:48 PM CST, 5 hours 36 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Chicago, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 17, 7:56 PM CST | River Flood Advisory | LOT | Cook | 13 hr |
| Feb 17, 8:34 PM CST | Flash Flood Watch | LOT | Grundy, Will | 4 days |
| Feb 17, 9:36 PM CST | River Flood Warning | LOT | LaSalle | 41 hr |
| Feb 17, 9:56 PM CST | Gale Warning | LOT | 30 hr | |
| Feb 17, 9:56 PM CST | Small Craft Advisory | LOT | 14 hr | |
| Feb 18, 10:12 AM CST | River Flood Advisory | LOT | LaSalle | 33 hr |
| Feb 18, 10:26 AM CST | Winter Weather Advisory | LOT | Cook, DeKalb, DuPage, Grundy, Kane, Kankakee and 4 more | 23 hr |
| Feb 18, 11:02 AM CST | River Flood Advisory | LOT | Grundy, Kankakee, Will | 5 days |
| Feb 17, 9:17 PM CST | River Flood Warning | LOT | Jasper | 9 hr |
| Feb 17, 9:17 PM CST | River Flood Warning | LOT | Newton | 53 hr |
| Feb 18, 11:21 AM CST | River Flood Warning | LOT | Jasper, Porter | 21 days |
| Feb 18, 11:35 AM CST | River Flood Warning | LOT | Lake, Newton | 21 days |
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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.