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Map of regions covered by the 122 Weather Forecast Offices. The National Weather Service operates 122 weather forecast offices. [1] [2] Each weather forecast office (WFO or NWSFO) has a geographic area of responsibility, also known as a county warning area, for issuing local public, marine, aviation, fire, and hydrology forecasts.
The current National Weather Service Chicago is located in Romeoville and is in charge of issuing local forecasts and weather warnings for the Chicago area. [2] It is one of only two National Weather Service offices in Illinois, the other being National Weather Service Central Illinois in Lincoln, Illinois.
Storm Data and Unusual Weather Phenomena (SD) is a monthly NOAA publication with comprehensive listings and detailed summaries of severe weather occurrences in the United States. Included is information on tornadoes , high wind events, hail , lightning , floods and flash floods , tropical cyclones (hurricanes), ice storms , snow , extreme ...
Detroit snow forecast. All of southeast Michigan was under either a winter storm warning or winter weather advisory from 1 p.m. Wednesday to 7 a.m. Thursday, according to the NWS in Detroit.
The quake measured a magnitude 5.0 and was centered about 30 miles northwest of Toyah, Texas and 50 miles from Carlsbad, New Mexico, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Fox Weather 23 hours ago
On December 31, 2018, Weather Underground ceased offering its popular application programming interface (API) for weather data, further reducing the breadth of its services. [ 32 ] On September 10, 2019, Weather Underground announced the discontinuation of its Email Forecast Program as of October 1, 2019, continuing the reduction in services ...
The Chicago NWS office stated that the storm had an exceptionally high peak cloud height. Neighboring NWS radar sites detected a peak height of above 60,000 ft (11 mi; 18 km) and potentially as high as 65,000–70,000 ft (12.3–13.3 mi; 20–21 km), well above the normal height for convective thunderstorms in the mid-latitudes. [1]
An observation from the National Weather Service Chicago, Illinois at Lewis University Airport, taken at around 4z (11 p.m. CDT), revealed MUCAPE values of 1556 J/kg, as well as extreme storm-relative helicity values of 644 m 2 /s 2 at 0–1 kilometers and 857 m 2 /s 2 at 0–3 kilometers, where storm-relative values of helicity above 150 m 2 ...