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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 221, NWS Wilmington, OH

June 22, 1996Campbell County, Kenton County, Kentucky

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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 22, 5:25 PM EDTHail 0.75Morning 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 1996-06-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 369 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, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 1996-06-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 135 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
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

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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 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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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 22, 7:55 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNHamilton50 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kentucky, 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.