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Wind Advisory 8, NWS Chicago, IL
NWS Chicago, IL issued this wind advisory at Mar 19, 2025, 2:57 AM CDT for 14 counties in Illinois; Lake County, Porter County, Indiana. It took effect at Mar 19, 2025, 10:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 9 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 19, 2025, 2:57 AM CDT (07:57 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 19, 2025, 10:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Mar 20, 2025, 7:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Chicago, IL
Counties Boone County, IL, Cook County, IL, DeKalb County, IL, DuPage County, IL, Grundy County, IL, Kane County, IL, Kendall County, IL, Lake County, IL, LaSalle County, IL, Lee County, IL, McHenry County, IL, Ogle County, IL, Will County, IL, Winnebago County, IL, Lake County, IN, Porter County, IN
The radar
The Chicago radar (KLOT), 35 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:57 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
Davenport, (KDVN), launched 00:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 178 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2280 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 267 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 310 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 19, 12:23 AM CDT, 2 hours 34 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 19, 12:23 AM CDT, 2 hours 34 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Chicago, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 18, 8:57 PM CDT | Wind Advisory | LOT | Ford, Iroquois, Kankakee, Livingston | 31 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 | 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.