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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 175, NWS Wilmington, OH

May 29, 1996Fairfield County, Ohio

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 29, 1996, 3:45 AM EDT for Fairfield 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 29, 1996, 3:45 AM EDT (07:45 UTC)
Expired: May 29, 1996, 4:15 AM EDT
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, OH
Area: Whole counties

County Fairfield County, OH

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 227 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: 545 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 51 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 64 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 29, 2:52 AM EDT, 53 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 29, 2:52 AM EDT, 53 minutes before

FORECAST COORDINATION MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
250 AM EDT WED MAY 29 1996

SFC LO LOCATED OVR N KY...BUT RW/TRW OVR FCST AREA ASSOCIATED WITH
SLO MOVG MID/UPR LVL VORTMX...NOW CNTRD INVOF NE IN. TSTMS CLOSE
TO THIS FEATURE HAVE BEEN ROTATING OVR SAME AREAS JUST W OF CWA...
FLOODING IN ADAMS COUNTY IN WITH 3 HR RAFL AMTS UP TO 2 INCHES PER
CALL FROM FWA. THIS AREA SHUD MOVE SLOWLY E AND WL HAVE TO BE
MONITORED FOR PSBL FLOODING IN FAR N COUNTIES...ESP VAN WERT...
PAULDING...PUTNAM...ALLEN AND HARDIN...THRU EARLY AM HRS. FARTHER
S/E...BANDS OF RW/TRW DEVELOPING AND MOVG ENE THRU FCST AREA.
FAVORED AREA FOR CONT RW/TRW DEVELOPMNT WL SHIFT E THIS AM AS COLD
POOL ALOFT MOVES E. PRECIP MSTLY N/E OF SE IN/N CNTL KY AND SW OH...
OUT OF CINCY METRO AREA. HERE...LIKELY NOTHING MORE THAN AN ISOLD RW
THRU EARLY AM.

PROGS PUSH VORTMX E OF FCST AREA BY 12Z...LOOKS A LITTLE FAST BUT
SHUD STILL PUSH E OF REGION BEFORE NOON. THEN...HIGH PRESSURE
BUILDS INTO REGION FROM N. ACRS FAR N COUNTIES...CLDS SHUD BREAK
FOR SUN BY NOON...AND SHUD BECOME M/SUNNY N OF ILN BY MID AFTN.
HOWEVER...GRIDDED DATA SHOWS LINGERING MSTR ACRS S OH/N KY AND
SE IN THRU FIRST HLF OF TONITE. ALSO...TRAILING MID/UPR LVL VORTMX
PRGGD TO ROTATE THRU DIGGING LNGWV TROF AND THRU S COUNTIES OF
FCST AREA ARND 0Z. MDLS PRINT OUT PRECIP IN THIS AREA LATER TDA/THIS
EVE. BOTTOM LINE...WHILE PRECIP ENDS ACRS ENTIRE REGION THIS AM
CHC POPS (FOR RW-) IN ORDER ACRS N KY...S OH AND PERHAPS SE IN
FOR LATE AFTN/EVE.

AFTER LAST MID/UPR IMPULSE MOVES E OF REGION BY MIDNIGHT...MEAN
30% RH OVERSPREADS ENTIRE REGION AS SFC HI BUILDS IN FROM N. M/CLR
N/CNTL...BECOMG M CLR S TONITE. THU...M/SUNNY AND COOL ACRS AREA...
ALTHO WITH H8 TMPS BLO +5 ACRS REGION...MAY BE CU/SC PM.

NE WNDS 15-25 MPH ACRS N TDA. WL TREND TWD COOLER AVN MOS POPS
FOR MAX TMPS NEXT 2 DAYS.

CVG 66/45/66  420
DAY 64/43/64  620
CMH 65/42/65  800

ROWLEY

In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 28, 10:07 PM EDT, 5 hours 38 minutes before

OHZ060>065-070>074-077>082-088-290300-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
1005 PM EDT TUE MAY 28 1996

...THE TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR SOUTHWEST AND
   SOUTH CENTRAL OHIO AND THE MIAMI VALLEY...

THE THUNDERSTORMS WHICH PRODUCED HEAVY RAIN DURING THE EVENING
HAVE WEAKENED AND MOVED EAST INTO SOUTHEAST OHIO. SCATTERED SHOWERS
AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE OVER SOUTHERN OHIO OVERNIGHT
BUT THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER HAS ENDED. THEREFORE...THE TORNADO
WATCH FOR SOUTHWEST AND SOUTH CENTRAL OHIO AND THE MIAMI VALLEY HAS
BEEN CANCELLED.

RANDALL

Local storm report, May 28, 10:49 PM EDT, 4 hours 56 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
1048 PM EDT TUE MAY 28 1996

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

0812 PM    COUNTYWIDE                KY   FLOODING
05/28/96   BOONE                          SEVERAL CREEKS FULL OR
                                          OVERFLOWING

0910 PM    2 W UNION                 KY   FLOODING
05/28/96   BOONE                          ONE FOOT OF WATER FLOWING
                                          OVER BENDEN ROAD

0910 PM    FLORENCE                  KY   FLOODING
05/28/96   BOONE                          GUNPOWDER ROAD UNDER WATER

Special weather statement, May 28, 11:08 PM EDT, 4 hours 37 minutes before

KYZ089>100-290400-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
1105 PM EDT TUE MAY 28 1996

...THE TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR NORTHERN KENTUCKY...

THE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE XWEAKENED AND MOVED EAST OUT OF NORTHERN
KENTUCKY. THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER OVER NORTHERN KENTUCKY HAS
ENDED. THEREFORE...THE TORNADO WATCH FOR NORTHERN KENTUCKY HAS BEEN
CANCELLED.

RANDALL

Local storm report, May 29, 12:04 AM EDT, 3 hours 41 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
1205 AM EDT WED MAY 29 1996

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

1105 |PM    COUNTYWIDE                KY   FLOODING
05/28/96   BOONE                          NUMEROUS ROADS CLOSED DUE
                                          TO HIGH WATER
RANDALL

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 29, 3:05 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILN	Franklin	3 hr
May 29, 4:22 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Hocking	38 min
May 28, 8:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Kenton	48 min
May 28, 9:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Robertson	41 min
May 28, 9:29 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILN	Boone	2 hr
May 28, 8:18 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILN	Ripley	117 min

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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.