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Wind Advisory 1, NWS Chicago, IL

January 26, 202510 counties in Illinois

NWS Chicago, IL issued this wind advisory at Jan 26, 2025, 12:37 PM CST for 10 counties in Illinois. It took effect at Jan 27, 2025, 9:00 AM CST. It was in force for 9 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jan 26, 2025, 12:37 PM CST (18:37 UTC)
In effect from
Jan 27, 2025, 9:00 AM CST
Expired
Jan 27, 2025, 6:00 PM CST
In force
9 hr
Issued by
NWS Chicago, IL

Counties Boone County, IL, Cook County, IL, DeKalb County, IL, DuPage County, IL, Kane County, IL, Lake County, IL, Lee County, IL, McHenry County, IL, Ogle County, IL, Winnebago County, IL

The radar

The Chicago radar (KLOT), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:39 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 271 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, Green Bay/Straub, WI at 12:00Z on 2025-01-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Green Bay/Straub, WI at 12:00Z on 2025-01-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 66 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1156 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
66 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
82 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 26, 8:58 AM CSTGale WarningLOT36 hr
Jan 26, 8:58 AM CSTSmall Craft AdvisoryLOT24 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.