Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 221, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 22, 1996, 4:44 PM EDT for Campbell County, Kenton County, Kentucky. It was in force for 46 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
- Jun 22, 1996, 4:44 PM EDT (20:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 22, 1996, 5:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Campbell County, KY, Kenton County, KY
The radar
The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:46 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 22, 5:25 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Morning View, KY |
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, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 79 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
- 369 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -184 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1135 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 135 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 141 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.3
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 22, 2:51 PM EDT, 1 hour 53 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 22, 2:51 PM EDT, 1 hour 53 minutes before
FORECAST COORDINATION MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 250 PM EDT SAT JUN 22 1996 CONFLUANT FLOW ACROSS FA AIDING IN LOCATING SFC BDRY. ILN 88D INDICATING SCATTERED CONVECTION ALONG THIS BDRY FROM NEAR CHILLICOTHE...TO JUST NORTH OF CVG AND THEN BACK W/NW INTO IN. ALTHOUGH LITTLE IF ANY UPPER LVL SUPPORT...CAPES NEAR 4000 J/KG AND SFC BASED LI'S BELOW -10 IN VCNTY OF SFC BDRY INDICATE POTENTIAL FOR SOME STRONG/SVR TRW'S THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THETA-E MIN AT MID LEVELS INDICATIVE OF SOME DRY AIR ALOFT...AND THUS THE POTENTIAL FOR ENHANCED DOWNDRAFT ACTIVITY WITH SOME STORMS. SFC BDRY SHOULD SAG INTO SRN PORTIONS OF FA TONIGHT...KEEPING THE THREAT OF TRW ACTIVITY IN THIS AREA THIS EVENING. GRIDDED DATA...NGM AND AVN PREFERRED...SUGGEST FOCUS FOR CONVECTION WILL SWING TO SRN IL/IN OVERNIGHT. NGM GRIDDS HAVE SFC BDRY TRANSPORTED TO THE EXTREME S PORTION OF FA...WITH LLVL CONVERGENCE DIMINISHING AFTER MIDNIGHT. EXPECT PTLY SUNNY CONDITIONS TOMORROW...WITH NEXT THREAT OF ANY WIDESPREAD CONVECTION ON MONDAY. DISTEFANO
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 22, 11:01 AM EDT, 5 hours 43 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Wilmington, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 22, 7:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Hamilton | 50 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.