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Beach Hazards Statement 6, NWS Chicago, IL

July 1, 2024Lake County, Illinois

NWS Chicago, IL issued this beach hazards statement at Jul 1, 2024, 3:00 PM CDT for Lake County, Illinois. It took effect at Jul 2, 2024, 5:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 1, 2024, 3:00 PM CDT (20:00 UTC)
In effect from: Jul 2, 2024, 5:00 AM CDT
Expired: Jul 2, 2024, 12:00 PM CDT
In force: 7 hr
Issued by: NWS Chicago, IL

County Lake County, IL

The radar

The Chicago radar (KLOT), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:01 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

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 238 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1684 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -80 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 43 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Jul 1, 12:19 PM CDT, 2 hours 41 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 1, 12:19 PM CDT, 2 hours 41 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 1, 3:30 AM CDT, 11 hours 30 minutes before

Hazardous Weather Outlook
National Weather Service Chicago/Romeoville IL
330 AM CDT Mon Jul 1 2024

ILZ003>006-008-010>013-019>021-023-032-033-039-103>108-INZ001-002-
010-011-019-020830-
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-
330 AM CDT Mon Jul 1 2024 /430 AM EDT Mon Jul 1 2024/

This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for portions of north central
Illinois...northeast Illinois and northwest Indiana.

.DAY ONE...Today and Tonight.

  No hazardous weather expected at this time.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Tuesday through Sunday.

Tuesday...
  Elevated Thunderstorm Risk...with an associated:
     Level 1 of 5 Severe Thunderstorm Risk Tuesday evening.
Wednesday...
  Limited Thunderstorm Risk...with an associated:
     Level 1 of 5 Severe Thunderstorm Risk mainly south of US-24.
Thursday and Friday...
  Limited Thunderstorm Risk.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

  Spotter activation will not be necessary through tonight.

LMZ740>745-020830-
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-
330 AM CDT Mon Jul 1 2024

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...Today and Tonight.

  No hazardous weather is expected at this time.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Tuesday through Sunday.

Tuesday through Friday...
  Limited Thunderstorm Risk at times.

Yack

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 1, 2:56 PM CDT	Small Craft Advisory	LOT		21 hr

Nearby

Beach Hazards Statements in Illinois, 2024 Every beach hazards statement in 2024

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.