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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 217, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 14, 1996, 8:10 PM EDT for Mason County, Kentucky. 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
- Jun 14, 1996, 8:10 PM EDT (00:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 14, 1996, 8:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 35 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 00:09 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 378 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 489 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -52 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1376 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 8 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 10 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Jun 14, 2:10 PM EDT, 6 hours earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 14, 2:10 PM EDT, 6 hours before
FORECAST COORDINATION MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 210 PM EDT FRI JUN 14 1996 ACTIVITY STARTING TO POP JUST NORTH OF THE DAYTON AREA...AND BLDG QUICKLY. TRW BLDG IN AREA OF POOLING DWPTS JUST AHD OF FRNT. WILL KEEP THIS SHORT. AS DISCUSSED W/ CLE...FEEL SMALL CHC OF TRW WILL CONT MOST OF NITE FOR SRN PARTS OF REGION...BASED ON WHAT HAPPENED LAST NIGHT IN THE NORTH. BOTH SAT AND SUN LOOK OK...BUT SAT WEAK S/W DROPPING INTO REGION. TEMPS SHUD APPCH 90 AND IF DWPTS DONT DROP WILL BE PRETTY UNSTABLE. CLE IS GOING TO LEAVE POPS OUT RIGHT NOW BUT GIVE HEADS UP TO LATER SHIFT. SUN LOOKS BEAUTIFUL... MOS TEMPS HAVE BEEN WORKING WELL IN THIS AIRMASS. CVG 66/89/65/89 3200( CMH 64/90/60/88 2100 DAY 64/88/62/88 2100 FARINA
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 14, 2:40 PM EDT, 5 hours 30 minutes before
OHZ015-016-024>026-034-035-042>046-051>056-060>065-070>074-077- 080-082-150000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 240 PM EDT FRI JUN 14 1996 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR MOST OF OHIO THROUGH 8 PM... THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR MUCH OF OHIO...INCLUDING WEST CENTRAL...CENTRAL...SOUTHWEST... AND SOUTHCENTRAL OHIO EXCEPT FOR THE COUNTIES ALONG THE OHIO RIVER. THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF COLUMBUS...LIMA AND DAYTON. THE WATCH IS EFFECTIVE THIS FRIDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING UNTIL 800 PM EDT. CINCINNATI AND PORTSMOUTH IS NOT INCLUDED IN THE WATCH. LARGE HAIL...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS ARE POSSIBLE IN THESE AREAS. REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTE|N FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. FARINA
Special weather statement, Jun 14, 5:50 PM EDT, 2 hours 20 minutes before
OHZ015-016-024>026-034-035-042>046-051>056-060>065-070>074-077>082- 088-089-KYZ088>100-INZ050-058-059-066-073>075-080-150400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 550 PM EDT (450 PM EST) FRI JUN 14 1996 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR MUCH OF SOUTHERN OHIO...SOUTHEASTERN INDIANA...NORTHERN KENTUCKY UNTIL MIDNIGHT... ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH PREVIOUSLY IN EFFECT FOR WEST CENTRAL OHIO HAS BEEN CANCELLED... A LINE OF STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING SLOWLY SOUTHWARD INTO SOUTHERN OHIO AND INDIANA AND IS EXPECTED TO REACH NORTHERN KENTUCKY LATER THIS EVENING. THIS LINE OF STORMS HAS A LONG HISTORY OF DAMAGING WINDS AND HAIL GREATER THAN 3/4 INCH IN DIAMETER. SOME MAJOR CITIES INCLUDED IN THE WATCH ARE CINCINNATI...DAYTON... PORTSMOUTH...AND RICHMOND INDIANA. THE CITIES OF COLUMBUS AND LIMA ARE NO LONGER UNDER THIS WATCH. REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. WILKINSON
Special weather statement, Jun 14, 7:16 PM EDT, 54 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.