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Beach Hazards Statement 12, NWS Chicago, IL

September 3, 2025Lake County, Porter County, Indiana

NWS Chicago, IL issued this beach hazards statement at Sep 3, 2025, 3:39 AM CDT for Lake County, Porter County, Indiana. It took effect at Sep 3, 2025, 7:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 20 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Sep 3, 2025, 3:39 AM CDT (08:39 UTC)
In effect from
Sep 3, 2025, 7:00 PM CDT
Expired
Sep 4, 2025, 2:46 PM CDT
In force
20 hr
Issued by
NWS Chicago, IL

Counties Lake County, IN, Porter County, IN

The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 8.7 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Lincoln, IL at 00:00Z on 2025-09-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 174 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Lincoln, IL at 00:00Z on 2025-09-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 9 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
174 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-12 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1815 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
9 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
30 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 Sep 3, 3:32 AM CDT, 7 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 3, 3:32 AM CDT, 7 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 3, 3:38 AM CDTSmall Craft AdvisoryLOT35 hr
Sep 3, 3:03 PM CDTGale WatchLOT12 hr

Nearby

Beach Hazards Statements in Indiana, 2025Every beach hazards statement in 2025

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.