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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 19, NWS Wilmington, OH

April 8, 1995Carroll County, Kentucky

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 8, 1995, 9:06 PM EDT for Carroll County, Kentucky. It was in force for 24 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 8, 1995, 9:06 PM EDT (01:06 UTC)
Expired: Apr 8, 1995, 9:30 PM EDT
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, OH
Area: Whole counties

County Carroll County, KY

The nearest sounding before it

Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 00:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 158 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: 76 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -65 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1220 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 35 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 120 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 Apr 8, 2:33 PM EDT, 6 hours 33 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 8, 2:33 PM EDT, 6 hours 33 minutes before

FORECAST COORDINATION MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
230 PM EDT SAT APR 8 1995

LTST SFC ANLYS HS STNRY FNT ACRS CNTRL OH. ADAP SHWS LI/S IN -2 TO -6 RANGE
ACRS OH VLY IN WRM SECTOR. GOOD CNVG ALONG FNT WHICH IS FOCUSING MECH FOR
DVLPG CNVTN FRM NR CAK TO NR IN TO HUF. STG CNVTN OVR SW IN BTN IND AND HUF
WITH VILS TO 56. THESE STMS APRS TO BE HAIL PRODUCERS BUT NO REPORTS YET.
WK S/W INTIALIZED OVR NRN MO PROVIDING SOME UPR SUPP FOR TSTMS AS IT MOVS
ACRS AREA THIS EVE.

ANOTHER S/W MOVS FM PLNS INTO NRN IL BY 12Z SUN. THIS MORE SIG S/W SHUD
ENCHANCE TRW CHCS LT TNGT INTO ERLY SUN. 70 KT H5 SPEED MAX ROT ARND BASE
OF WRN US TROF INTO SRN PLNS ON SUN RESULTING IN CYCLGN OVR CNTRL PLNS
LFTG INTO MID MS VLY MON. TRW CHCS SHUD DIMINISH DURG DAY SUN AS RDGG
TAKES PLACE ALOFT OVR OH VLY AHD OF STG PLNS SYS. FLO BACKS LT SUN NGT
INTO MON AS H8 50 KT JET PUNCHES INTO MID MS VLY WITH GOOD UVV WORKING
INTO LWR OH VLY.

TEMPS WI8SE...PREFER WRM FWC MOS FOR TNGTS LOWS. BASED ON TDA/S HI/S FAN
NUMBERS APR TOO COOL SUN. WUD LIKE TO GO A LITTLE ABV FWC NUMBERS
SUN.

CVG 55/73/52  7/6/4
DAY 53/70/50  8/6/5
CMH 50/68/48  8/7/5

RANDALL

In the hours before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 9, 8:55 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Logan, Shelby	50 min
Apr 9, 9:53 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Darke	37 min
Apr 9, 11:39 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Fairfield	36 min
Apr 9, 3:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Hocking, Ross	42 min
Apr 8, 11:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Ripley	29 min
Apr 9, 1:28 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Ripley	47 min
Apr 9, 12:24 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Owen	51 min
Apr 9, 12:37 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Carroll	38 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kentucky, 1995 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1995

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.