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Beach Hazards Statement 10, NWS Chicago, IL
NWS Chicago, IL issued this beach hazards statement at Aug 8, 2024, 3:25 AM CDT for Lake County, Porter County, Indiana. It took effect at Aug 9, 2024, 1:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 45 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 8, 2024, 3:25 AM CDT (08:25 UTC)
- In effect from
- Aug 9, 2024, 1:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Aug 10, 2024, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 45 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Chicago, IL
Counties Lake County, IN, Porter County, IN
The radar
The Chicago radar (KLOT), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:25 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 189 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
- 2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -13 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 896 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -18 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 33 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Aug 7, 6:32 PM CDT, 8 hours 53 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 7, 6:32 PM CDT, 8 hours 53 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Chicago, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 8, 3:25 AM CDT | Small Craft Advisory | LOT | 48 hr |
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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.