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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 5, NWS Wilmington, OH

March 23, 1995Bracken County, Kentucky

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 23, 1995, 1:04 AM EST for Bracken County, Kentucky. It was in force for 41 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 23, 1995, 1:04 AM EST (06:04 UTC)
Expired
Mar 23, 1995, 1:45 AM EST
In force
41 min
Issued by
NWS Wilmington, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Bracken County, KY

The nearest sounding before it

Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 00:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 135 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dayton/James M C, OH at 00:00Z on 1995-03-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dayton/James M C, OH at 00:00Z on 1995-03-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 26 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1467 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
56 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
26 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
160 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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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 22, 8:45 PM EST, 4 hours 19 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 22, 8:45 PM EST, 4 hours 19 minutes before
FORECAST COORDINATION MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
845 PM EST WED MAR 22 1995

CLDS ARE INCG FM THE W AND SW ATTM. DOPPLER DOES NOT INDICATE PRECIP
IN ILN CWA ATTM BUT IS APCHG SE IND AND N KY. CURRENT FCSTS FOR CWA
LK GD.

PARKER

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 23, 12:01 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNDearborn44 min
Mar 23, 12:50 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNPendleton40 min
Mar 23, 1:20 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNMason, Robertson25 min
Mar 23, 1:43 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNLewis47 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.