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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 126, NWS Wilmington, OH

May 10, 1996Allen County, Auglaize County, Hardin County, Ohio

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 10, 1996, 1:56 PM EDT for Allen County, Auglaize County, Hardin County, Ohio. It was in force for 34 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: May 10, 1996, 1:56 PM EDT (17:56 UTC)
Expired: May 10, 1996, 2:30 PM EDT
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, OH
Area: Whole counties

Counties Allen County, OH, Auglaize County, OH, Hardin County, OH

The radar

The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 139 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:55 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 10, 2:15 PM EDT	Hail 0.75	Waynesfield, OH

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 138 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: 168 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -88 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1325 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 23 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -2 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 May 10, 9:35 AM EDT, 4 hours 21 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 10, 9:35 AM EDT, 4 hours 21 minutes before

FORECAST COORDINATION MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
934 AM EDT FRI MAY 10 1996

KILN SOUNDING SUPPORTS HI TEMPS IN THE MID 80S WITH A FEW CLOUDS
AROUND.  MODIFYING THE SOUNDING GIVES MODERATE INSTABILITY FOR THE
AFTERNOON HOURS.  MODELS FCST COLD FNT TO PUSH INTO NWRN OH AROUND 00Z
SAT AND SOUTH OF OHIO RIVER BY 12Z SAT.  FCST LOOKS GOOD WITH BEST CHC
OF RW/TRW OVR LIMA AREA TAPERING OFF TO THE SOUTH AND EAST.

WL HAVE TO WATCH LINE OF TRW HEADING INTO CNTRL IN.  LOOKS LIKE IT WL
MOVE INTO AREAS THAT HAVE CHC IN PM BUT ZONES WITHOUT PRECIP WL HAVE TO
BE WATCHED SINCE AREAS OF STORMS SHOULD PROGRESS FURTHER SOUTH AND EAST
WITH EACH BATCH.

WILKINSON

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 10, 1:47 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILN	Allen, Auglaize, Hardin	4 hr
May 10, 1:47 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILN	Darke, Mercer, Shelby	4 hr
May 10, 5:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Preble	60 min
May 10, 5:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Miami, Montgomery	40 min
May 10, 5:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Greene, Warren	45 min
May 10, 6:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Clinton	45 min
May 10, 6:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Clark	45 min
May 10, 6:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Fayette, Madison	45 min
May 10, 4:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Pendleton	49 min
May 10, 4:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Fayette	38 min
May 10, 4:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Franklin	45 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.