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Beach Hazards Statement 17, NWS Chicago, IL
NWS Chicago, IL issued this beach hazards statement at Sep 26, 2024, 3:12 PM CDT for Cook County, Lake County, Illinois; Lake County, Porter County, Indiana. It took effect at Sep 27, 2024, 4:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 3 days.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 26, 2024, 3:12 PM CDT (20:12 UTC)
- In effect from
- Sep 27, 2024, 4:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Sep 30, 2024, 5:06 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 days
- 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 20:32 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, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 206 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
- 1354 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 47 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 62 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 26, 3:26 AM CDT | Gale Watch | LOT | 12 hr | |
| Sep 26, 2:47 PM CDT | Wind Advisory | LOT | Cook, Ford, Iroquois, Kankakee, Livingston, Will | 33 hr |
| Sep 26, 3:04 PM CDT | Gale Warning | LOT | 36 hr | |
| Sep 26, 3:04 PM CDT | Small Craft Advisory | LOT | 22 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.