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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 111, NWS Wilmington, OH

May 5, 1996Scioto County, Ohio

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 5, 1996, 8:20 PM EDT for Scioto County, Ohio. It was in force for 30 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, 8:20 PM EDT (00:20 UTC)
Expired: May 5, 1996, 8:50 PM EDT
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, OH
Area: Whole counties

County Scioto County, OH

The radar

The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 98 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 580 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 54 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 251 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 273 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, 10 hours 56 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 5, 9:24 AM EDT, 10 hours 56 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, 5 hours 42 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, 3 hours 13 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, 2 hours 57 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, 2 hours 54 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, 2 hours 43 minutes before

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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.