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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 103, NWS Wilmington, OH

May 5, 1996Mason County, Kentucky

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 5, 1996, 6:12 PM EDT for Mason County, Kentucky. It was in force for 48 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 5, 1996, 6:12 PM EDT (22:12 UTC)
Expired
May 5, 1996, 7:00 PM EDT
In force
48 min
Issued by
NWS Wilmington, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Mason County, KY

The radar

The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 93 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, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 1996-05-05Temperature 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 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 1996-05-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 110 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
749 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
110 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
200 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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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 May 5, 9:24 AM EDT, 8 hours 48 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 5, 9:24 AM EDT, 8 hours 48 minutes before
FORECAST COORDINATION MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
920 AM EDT SUN MAY 5 1996

SFC BNDRY S OF FCST AREA THIS AM. SFC WV DEVELOPING ON FRNT INVOF S
IN. E/W BAND OF RW N OF BNDRY CONTINUES TO TRAIN THRU COUNTIES ALNG
OH RVR. THIS AREA SHUD BE INITIAL FOCUS OF SVR WX/HVY RN...STARTG BY
EARLY THIS AFTN...AS SFC WV MOVES E ALNG BNDRY. FARTHER W...CLUSTER
OF TSTMS WELL N OF BNDRY IN W IL...MAY MOVE INTO W COUNTIES OF FCST
AREA BY MID AFTN. ALSO...ANOTHER MCS MOVG THRU MO INVOF SFC BNDRY...
SHUD MOVE INTO FCST AREA BY LATE AFTN/EARLY EVE. AGAIN...FOCUS OF
MOST ACTIVE AREA SHUD BE ACRS SE IN/N KY/S OH...BUT RW/TRW LIKELY
ANYWHERE ACRS FCST AREA THIS AFTN INTO THIS EVE. AFTER SFC WV/MCS
MOVE E OF AREA...SFC BNDRY MAY BE PUSHED FAR ENUF S FOR TO ALLOW
BREAK FROM SVR WX/FLOODING RAINS MON.

CONT FLOOD WATCH S HLF OH/FLASH FLOOD WATCHES SE IN/N KY THRU THIS
EVE.

CURRNT FCST TMPS LOOK OK...50S FAR N TO ARND 70 S.

ROWLEY

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 5, 2:38 PM EDT, 3 hours 34 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON,OH
236 PM EDT SUN MAY 5 1996

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

203 PM    CIRCLEVILLE               OH   .75 INCH HAIL
05/05/96  PICKAWAY

FARINA
Local storm report, May 5, 5:07 PM EDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON,OH
506 PM EDT SUN MAY 5 1996

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

445 PM       MAYSVILLE
             MASON COUNTY          KY          1.0 INCH HAIL

455 PM       ABERDEEN
             BROWN COUNTY          OH          2.0 INCH HAIL

500 PM       5 SW WEST UNION       OH          1.0 INCH HAIL
             ADAMS COUNTY

505| PM       WEST UNION            OH          1.0 INCH HAIL
             ADAMS COUNTY

WILKINSON
Local storm report, May 5, 5:23 PM EDT, 49 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON,OH
522 PM EDT SUN MAY 5 1996

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

520 PM       LYNX TO E OF W UNION
             ADAMS COUNTY          OH          1.75 INCH HAIL

WILKINSON
Local storm report, May 5, 5:26 PM EDT, 46 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON,OH
525 PM EDT SUN MAY 5 1996

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

524 PM       ALONG OHIO RIVER
             ADAMS COUNTY          OH          1.00 INCH HAIL

WILKINSON
Local storm report, May 5, 5:37 PM EDT, 35 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 5, 1:55 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNFranklin, Pickaway35 min
May 5, 2:22 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNFairfield23 min
May 5, 2:24 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNLicking51 min
May 5, 2:44 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNFairfield16 min
May 5, 3:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNButler64 min
May 5, 3:40 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNWarren50 min
May 5, 4:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNAdams, Brown45 min
May 5, 5:02 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNFayette13 min
May 5, 5:07 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNPickaway, Ross23 min
May 5, 5:16 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNScioto44 min
May 5, 5:36 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNPike24 min
May 5, 7:55 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNAdams, Brown35 min
May 5, 4:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNBracken, Mason, Robertson31 min
May 5, 5:12 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNOwen18 min
May 5, 5:31 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNGrant29 min
May 5, 5:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNBracken, Robertson43 min
May 5, 6:52 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNOwen38 min
May 5, 7:05 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNGrant25 min
May 5, 7:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNPendleton30 min
May 5, 7:35 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNBracken, Robertson25 min
May 5, 7:41 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNMason24 min
May 5, 7:55 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNLewis35 min
May 5, 3:23 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNWayne52 min
May 5, 3:36 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNFayette, Union54 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kentucky, 1996Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1996

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.