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Wind Advisory 7, NWS Chicago, IL

March 18, 20254 counties in Illinois; Benton County, Jasper County, Newton County, Indiana

NWS Chicago, IL issued this wind advisory at Mar 18, 2025, 8:57 PM CDT for 4 counties in Illinois; Benton County, Jasper County, Newton County, Indiana. It took effect at Mar 19, 2025, 10:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 18 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 18, 2025, 8:57 PM CDT (01:57 UTC)
In effect from: Mar 19, 2025, 10:00 AM CDT
Expired: Mar 20, 2025, 4:08 AM CDT
In force: 18 hr
Issued by: NWS Chicago, IL

Counties Ford County, IL, Iroquois County, IL, Kankakee County, IL, Livingston County, IL, Benton County, IN, Jasper County, IN, Newton County, IN

The radar

The Chicago radar (KLOT), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:56 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 106 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: 2097 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 354 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 523 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 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 Mar 18, 6:48 PM CDT, 2 hours 9 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 18, 6:48 PM CDT, 2 hours 9 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 19, 2:57 AM CDT	Wind Advisory	LOT	Boone, Cook, DeKalb, DuPage, Grundy, Kane and 8 more	28 hr
Mar 19, 10:14 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LOT	DeKalb	16 min
Mar 19, 10:29 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LOT	DeKalb	16 min
Mar 19, 10:34 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LOT	McHenry	11 min
Mar 19, 10:44 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LOT	LaSalle	31 min
Mar 19, 10:51 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LOT	McHenry	39 min
Mar 19, 2:02 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LOT	DuPage, Kane	28 min
Mar 19, 4:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LOT	Livingston	48 min
Mar 19, 4:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LOT	Grundy, Kendall, LaSalle, Will	51 min
Mar 19, 4:44 PM CDT	Dust Storm Advisory	LOT	Ford, Iroquois, Kankakee	2 hr
Mar 19, 4:51 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LOT	DuPage, Kane	39 min
Mar 19, 4:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LOT	Ford, Grundy, Iroquois, Kankakee, Livingston, Will	39 min
Mar 19, 4:56 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	LOT		2 hr
Mar 19, 5:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LOT	Cook, DuPage, Will	44 min
Mar 19, 5:02 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LOT	Will	28 min
Mar 19, 5:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LOT	Kankakee	45 min
Mar 19, 5:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LOT	Ford, Livingston	43 min
Mar 19, 5:29 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LOT	Cook, Will	31 min
Mar 19, 5:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LOT	Ford, Iroquois	35 min
Mar 19, 5:38 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LOT	Iroquois, Kankakee	20 min
Mar 19, 5:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LOT	Jasper, Lake, Newton, Porter	56 min

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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.