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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 170, NWS Wilmington, OH

June 9, 1995Mason County, Kentucky

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 9, 1995, 10:11 PM EDT for Mason County, Kentucky. It was in force for 34 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 9, 1995, 10:11 PM EDT (02:11 UTC)
Expired: Jun 9, 1995, 10:45 PM EDT
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, OH
Area: Whole counties

County Mason County, KY

The nearest sounding before it

Huntington/Tri S, WV (KHTS), launched 00:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 118 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: 1369 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -12 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1242 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 38 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 93 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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 41 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 9, 8:30 PM EDT, 1 hour 41 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, 48 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, 8:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Clinton	44 min
Jun 9, 9:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Highland	22 min
Jun 9, 9:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Brown	42 min
Jun 9, 9:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Adams	50 min
Jun 9, 10:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Scioto	46 min
Jun 9, 11:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Pike	39 min
Jun 10, 8:20 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Mercer	40 min
Jun 10, 11:19 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Franklin	41 min
Jun 10, 3:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Ross	49 min
Jun 10, 3:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Adams, Scioto	51 min
Jun 10, 4:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Fairfield, Licking	36 min
Jun 9, 9:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Mason	45 min
Jun 9, 9:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Owen	46 min
Jun 9, 9:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Bracken, Robertson	38 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

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.