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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 147, NWS Wilmington, OH

May 24, 1996Butler County, Ohio

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 1996, 6:25 AM EDT for Butler County, Ohio. It was in force for 35 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 24, 1996, 6:25 AM EDT (10:25 UTC)
Expired
May 24, 1996, 7:00 AM EDT
In force
35 min
Issued by
NWS Wilmington, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Butler County, OH

The radar

The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 353 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, Lincoln, IL at 00:00Z on 1996-05-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Lincoln, IL at 00:00Z on 1996-05-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 80 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
2 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-652 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
636 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
80 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
284 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
6.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 24, 3:34 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNBrown, Highland26 min
May 24, 4:00 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNHighland30 min
May 24, 5:26 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNMontgomery34 min
May 24, 5:27 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNButler33 min
May 24, 5:44 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNClermont, Hamilton31 min
May 24, 5:53 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNGreene37 min
May 24, 5:57 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNClinton, Warren33 min
May 24, 6:21 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNMontgomery, Preble39 min
May 24, 6:29 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNBrown, Clinton, Highland31 min
May 24, 6:54 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNWarren36 min
May 24, 7:12 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNClinton48 min
May 24, 7:23 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNAdams, Brown37 min
May 24, 7:29 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNButler, Warren31 min
May 24, 7:52 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNScioto38 min
May 24, 4:21 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNFranklin39 min
May 24, 4:21 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNWayne39 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Ohio, 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.