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Water Vapor Satellite Loop from 345 pm est to 700 pm est August 8th, 2005

 

 
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Note the cyclonic spin aloft over northeast Illinois and northwest Indiana. This shortwave trough provided sufficient upward forcing for unstable surface parcels to freely convect across northern Indiana.