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Wind Advisory 5, NWS Chicago, IL
NWS Chicago, IL issued this wind advisory at May 21, 2024, 10:20 PM CDT for 15 counties in Illinois; 5 counties in Indiana. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 21, 2024, 10:20 PM CDT (03:20 UTC)
- Expired
- May 22, 2024, 3:52 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Chicago, IL
Counties Boone County, IL, Cook County, IL, DeKalb County, IL, DuPage County, IL, Ford County, IL, Grundy County, IL, Iroquois County, IL, Kane County, IL, Kankakee County, IL, Kendall County, IL, Lake County, IL, LaSalle County, IL, Livingston County, IL, McHenry County, IL, Will County, IL, Benton County, IN, Jasper County, IN, Lake County, IN, Newton County, IN, Porter County, IN
The radar
The Chicago radar (KLOT), 17 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:20 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 153 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
- 1222 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -164 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1868 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 71 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 154 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.4
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this wind advisory 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 wind advisory went out at May 21, 6:28 PM CDT, 3 hours 52 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 21, 6:28 PM CDT, 3 hours 52 minutes before
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Special weather statement, May 21, 6:22 PM CDT, 3 hours 58 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Chicago, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 21, 7:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Lee, Ogle | 45 min |
| May 21, 8:32 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LOT | Winnebago | 28 min |
| May 21, 8:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Boone, Winnebago | 20 min |
| May 21, 10:04 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LOT | Ford | 26 min |
| May 21, 10:27 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LOT | Iroquois | 33 min |
| May 21, 10:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Winnebago | 47 min |
| May 21, 10:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Lee | 67 min |
| May 21, 11:41 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LOT | McHenry | 19 min |
| May 22, 3:50 AM CDT | Small Craft Advisory | LOT | 17 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.