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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 166, NWS Wilmington, OH

June 9, 1995Owen County, Kentucky

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 9, 1995, 9:44 PM EDT for Owen County, Kentucky. It was in force for 46 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 9, 1995, 9:44 PM EDT (01:44 UTC)
Expired: Jun 9, 1995, 10:30 PM EDT
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, OH
Area: Whole counties

County Owen County, KY

The nearest sounding before it

Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 00:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 163 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: 1441 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 795 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 57 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 212 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.9
Supercell composite: 4.8

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KILN 100142 RRA
SVRILN
KYC187-100230-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
944 PM EDT FRI JUN 9 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1030 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTH KENTUCKY
 
   ...OWEN COUNTY
 
AT 940 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM MOVING
INTO THE SOUTHERN OWEN AS IT MOVES EAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. THIS STORM
WAS NEAR MONTEREY OR 45 MILES SOUTH OF CINCINNATI.
 
PEOPLE IN THE TOWNS OF BEECHWOOD AND NEW COLUMBUS ARE IN THE PATH OF
THIS STORM AND SHOULD MOVE TO THEIR STORM SHELTERS IMMEDIATELY TO
PROTECT AGAINST LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS.
 
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINES S. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DO
NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
 
HYSELL

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Wilmington, OH wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 9, 8:30 PM EDT, 1 hour 14 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 9, 8:30 PM EDT, 1 hour 14 minutes before

FORECAST COORDINATION MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
830 PM EDT FRI JUN 9 1995

DUE TO SVR WX...NO EXTENSIVE AFD WILL BE ISSUED AT THIS TIME. IN
BRIEF...SFC BDRY NEAR OH RIVER HELPING TO TRIGER STRONG/SVR STORMS.
CAPES ABOVE 3000 J/KG PROVIDING POTENTIAL FOR VIGIROUS UPDRAFTS. EXPECT
ACTIVITY TO CONTINUE FOR AT LEAST NEXT SEVERAL HOURS.

DISTEFANO

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 9, 9:23 PM EDT, 21 minutes before

INZ074-066-075-073-080-OHZ081-079-070-078-072-065-063-055-062-077-
080-074-056-054-061-064-082-073-088-071-KYZ091-097-093-089-090-
095-092-100-099-094-096-201-100630-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
925 PM EDT (825 PM EST) FRI JUN 9 1995

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL
OHIO...NORTHERN KENTUCKY...AND SOUTHEAST INDIANA UNTIL 200 AM EDT

WARM...MOIST...AND UNSTABLE AIR COVER MUCH OF SOUTHERN OHIO...
NORTHERN KENTUCKY AND SOUTHEAST INDIANA THIS EVENING. WITH A STATIONARY
FRONT LAYING ACROSS THE REGION...THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP
OVER THE AREA TONIGHT. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY CONTAIN LARGE HAIL AND
DAMAGING WINDS. AS A RESULT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT
UNTIL 200 AM EDT (100 AM EST) FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES:

IN OHIO:
BUTLER...HAMILTON...WARREN...MONTGOMERY...CLERMONT...GREENE...CLINTON
..BROWN...HIGHLAND...MADISON...FAYETTE...ADAMS...FRANKLIN...PICKAWAY
..ROSS...PIKE...SCIOTO...LICKING...FAIRFIELD...AND HOCKING.

IN SOUTHEAST INDIANA:
FRANKLIN...RIPLEY...DEARBORN...OHIO...SWITZERLAND

IN NORTHERN KENTUCKY:
CARROLL...GALLATIN...OWEN...GRANT...BOONE...KENTON...PENDLETON...
CAMPBELL...BRACKEN...ROBERTSON...MASON...LEWIS

PEOPLE IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO SHELTER IF
THREATNING WEATHER APPROACHES. KEEP TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND YOUR
LOCAL MEDIA FOR ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

HYSELL

The office that day

Everything else NWS Wilmington, OH issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 9, 9:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Mason	45 min
Jun 9, 9:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Bracken, Robertson	38 min
Jun 9, 10:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Mason	34 min
Jun 9, 10:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Mason, Robertson	37 min
Jun 9, 10:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Campbell, Kenton	50 min
Jun 9, 11:00 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILN	Bracken, Mason, Robertson	4 hr
Jun 10, 2:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Pendleton	26 min
Jun 10, 2:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Bracken, Robertson	37 min
Jun 10, 3:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Lewis	51 min

Nearby

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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.