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Beach Hazards Statement 8, NWS Chicago, IL
NWS Chicago, IL issued this beach hazards statement at Jul 17, 2024, 2:19 PM CDT for Cook County, Lake County, Illinois; Lake County, Porter County, Indiana. It took effect at Jul 17, 2024, 4:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 27 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 17, 2024, 2:19 PM CDT (19:19 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jul 17, 2024, 4:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Jul 18, 2024, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 27 hr
- 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 19:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 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
- 58 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -152 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1107 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -42 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 42 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 Jul 16, 6:43 PM CDT, 19 hours 36 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 16, 6:43 PM CDT, 19 hours 36 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Chicago, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 16, 8:57 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | LOT | Winnebago | 6 days |
| Jul 17, 2:13 PM CDT | Small Craft Advisory | LOT | 29 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.