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Tornado Warning 14, NWS Chicago, IL
NWS Chicago, IL issued this tornado warning at Apr 15, 2026, 7:56 PM CDT for Ogle County, Winnebago County, Illinois. It was in force for 34 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 15, 2026, 7:56 PM CDT (00:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 15, 2026, 8:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Chicago, IL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Tornado
- Radar indicated
- Hail
- 0.75 in
Counties Ogle County, IL, Winnebago County, IL
The radar
The Milwaukee radar (KMKX), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:58 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 15, 7:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Davenport, (KDVN), launched 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 122 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
- 1272 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1003 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 64 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 167 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 209 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.7
- Supercell composite
- 10.4
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado warning 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 tornado warning went out at Apr 15, 6:46 PM CDT, 1 hour 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 15, 6:46 PM CDT, 1 hour 10 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Chicago, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Apr 15, 8:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Winnebago | 24 min |
| Apr 15, 8:27 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LOT | Boone, Winnebago | 4 hr |
| Apr 15, 9:20 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LOT | 115 min | |
| Apr 15, 9:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | DuPage, Kane, Kendall, Will | 55 min |
| Apr 15, 9:48 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | LOT | 117 min | |
| Apr 15, 9:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Cook, DuPage | 40 min |
| Apr 16, 3:03 AM CDT | Marine Dense Fog Advisory | LOT | 6 hr | |
| Apr 16, 3:29 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | LOT | Kane, Kendall | 13 days |
| Apr 16, 7:30 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | LOT | Boone, Winnebago | 3 days |
| Apr 16, 7:58 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | LOT | Winnebago | 14 days |
| Apr 16, 11:01 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | LOT | Winnebago | 13 days |
| Apr 16, 11:17 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | LOT | Ogle | 21 days |
| Apr 16, 11:24 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | LOT | Winnebago | 4 days |
| Apr 16, 11:29 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | LOT | Winnebago | 10 days |
| Apr 16, 3:03 PM CDT | Marine Dense Fog Advisory | LOT | 19 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.