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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Wilmington, OH

March 21, 1995Scioto County, Ohio

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 21, 1995, 12:53 AM EST for Scioto County, Ohio. It was in force for 22 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 21, 1995, 12:53 AM EST (05:53 UTC)
Expired: Mar 21, 1995, 1:15 AM EST
In force: 22 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, OH
Area: Whole counties

County Scioto County, OH

The nearest sounding before it

Huntington/Tri S, WV (KHTS), launched 00:00Z, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 65 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: 2 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -17 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 750 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 99 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 128 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
WUUS01 KILN 210555 RRA
SVRILN
OHC145-210615-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING...CORRECTION TO DATE/TIME
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
1253 AM EST TUE MAR 21 1995

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  115 AM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN SOUTH OHIO

   ...SCIOTO COUNTY

AT 1230 AM EST...DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM ALONG THE ADAMS-SCIOTO COUNTY BORDER...18 MILES NORTHWEST
OF PORTSMOUTH...NEAR RARDEN.

THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 45 MILES AN HOUR AND PEOPLE IN THE TOWNS
OF RARDEN...LUCASVILLE...AND MINFORD ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM AND
CAN EXPECT DIME SIZE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 50 MILES AN HOUR.

IT IS DANGEROUS TO BE OUTDOORS WHILE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS IN
PROGRESS. DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...AND
DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE. SEEK SHELTER IN A BUILDING OR
A VEHICLE. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT IN THE OPEN...STAY AWAY FROM TOWERS
AND TALL TREES. CROUCH NEAR THE GROUND AND COVER YOUR HEAD.

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 Mar 20, 10:03 AM EST, 14 hours 50 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 20, 10:03 AM EST, 14 hours 50 minutes before

FORECAST COORDINATION MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
1002 AM EST MON MAR 20 1995

THINGS LINING UP FOR SOME SVR WX LATER TODAY. THINK GREATEST THREAT FOR
OUR CWA WILL BE FROM 3 TO 7 PM...WHEN GREATEST DYNAMICS ARE OVERHEAD.
TSTMS OVR IL/AR/MO MAY WAIT FOR GOOD DYNAMICS BEFORE STARTING TO LIFT
NORTHEAST. GOOD SPEED SHEAR IN LOW LEVELS BUT NOT A LOT OF
DIRECTIONAL..SO HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS SHUD BE THE MAIN WX THREATS.

TEMPERATURESD MAY NEED TO BE BUMPED UP A NOTCH...ALREADY IN THE 60S.

DAY 70/40/49 861
CVG 72/42/55 861
CMH 74/43/52 772

FARINA

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 20, 11:59 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Adams, Brown	31 min

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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.