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High Wind Warning 1, NWS Chicago, IL
NWS Chicago, IL issued this high wind warning at Mar 3, 2023, 12:29 PM CST for Ford County, Iroquois County, Livingston County, Illinois; Benton County, Indiana. 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
- Mar 3, 2023, 12:29 PM CST (18:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 3, 2023, 4:00 PM CST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Chicago, IL
Counties Ford County, IL, Iroquois County, IL, Livingston County, IL, Benton County, IN
The radar
The Chicago radar (KLOT), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:33 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 82 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
- 1689 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 64 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 62 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 109 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Chicago, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 2, 7:35 PM CST | River Flood Warning | LOT | Winnebago | 62 hr |
| Mar 2, 8:38 PM CST | Winter Storm Warning | LOT | Iroquois, Kankakee, Will | 22 hr |
| Mar 2, 8:38 PM CST | Winter Weather Advisory | LOT | Cook, DuPage, Ford, Grundy, Kendall, Livingston and 1 more | 22 hr |
| Mar 2, 9:21 PM CST | Gale Warning | LOT | 24 hr | |
| Mar 3, 12:44 PM CST | River Flood Watch | LOT | Jasper, Porter | 22 hr |
| Mar 3, 12:49 PM CST | River Flood Watch | LOT | Jasper | 22 hr |
Nearby
High Wind Warnings in Illinois, 2023High Wind Warnings in Indiana, 2023Every high wind warning in 2023
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.