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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 23, NWS Wilmington, OH

April 23, 1996Adams County, Ohio; Lewis County, Kentucky

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 23, 1996, 12:06 PM EDT for Adams County, Ohio; Lewis County, Kentucky. It was in force for 54 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: Apr 23, 1996, 12:06 PM EDT (16:06 UTC)
Expired: Apr 23, 1996, 1:00 PM EDT
In force: 54 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, OH
Area: Whole counties

Counties Lewis County, KY, Adams County, OH

The radar

The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:09 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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
Apr 23, 12:15 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 65	Wrightsville, OH

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, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 89 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: 561 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 66 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 98 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 144 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 Apr 23, 2:46 AM EDT, 9 hours 20 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 23, 2:46 AM EDT, 9 hours 20 minutes before

FORECAST COORDINATION MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
245 AM EDT TUE APR 23 1996

SFC BDNDRY CURRNTLY THRU NW COUNTIES OF FCST AREA...DOES NOT APPR
TO BE MOVG MUCH ATTM. FARTHER SW ALNG BNDRY...SFC WV MOVG OUT OF W
TN AND INTO W KY. ACRS FCST AREA...MOST PRECIP NOW OCCURG IN TWO
ZONES. IN BAND OF LGT/MDT RAIN (PSBL ISOLD TRW) FRM N CNTL KY NE
THRU VCNTY CMH...88-D STRM TOTAL RAFL EST 1 TO 1.5 IN A FEW
LOCATIONS...ESP IN N CNTL KY AND INVOF CMH. AREAL CVRG OF THIS BAND
OF PRECIP INCREASES ACRS W KY...INVOF SFC WV...PER KLVX 88-D. ALSO...
WIDESPREAD LGT TO MDT RAIN IS OCCURRING N/W OF BNDRY FROM CNTL IN
THRU NW COUNTIES OF FCST AREA. IN THIS AREA...MORE WIDESPRD STORM
TOTAL RAFL AMTS OF 1+ INCH DUE TO COMBINATION OF TSTMS EARLIER TDA
AND PRECIP OCCURG NOW. BETWEEN THESE AREAS OF PRECIP...ONLY SCT LGT
RW FROM CVG THRU DAY.

AS SFC WV MOVES NE AND INTO FCST AREA BY 12Z...GAPS IN PRECIP SHUD
FILL IN AND SOAKING RAIN SHUD AFFECT MOST AREAS...THRU LATE AM NW
AND PERHAPS INTO MID AFTN SE. FCST PROBLEM IS WHETHER TO EXTEND
FLASH FLOOD WATCHES ACRS SE IN AND N KY...AND FLOOD WATCH FOR
CNTL/S CNTL OH. ADDL RAFL AMTS OF 0.5 TO 1.0 INCH SHUD BE COMMON
ACRS REGION. ACRS SE IN...EXTENSION LIKELY NOT NEEDED BECAUSE OF
RELATIVE MIN IN STRM TTL PRECIP EST. ACRS N KY...FFLOD WATCH MAY
BE NEEDED THRU AM HRS DUE TO RAFL ALREADY ACCUM AND ADDL RAFL FOR
SEVERAL MORE HRS. IN OH...HIEST PRECIP TOTAL PRECIP AMTS SO FAR
IN NW COUNTIES...WHERE NO WATCH IN EFFECT. FLOOD WATCH CONTINUATION
LIKELY NEEDED THRU AM CNTL/S CNTL...WHERE PRECIP MAY CONT INTO AFTN.

CLDS SHUD BREAK FROM W TO E LATE THIS AFTN AND THIS EVE. WINDY
ACRS REGION AFTER LO PASSES...N AT 20-30 MPH WITH DECENT SFC GRADIENT
AS HI BUILDS IN FROM W. HIGH TMPS TDA SHUD OCCUR THIS AM...NR 50
NW TO MID 50S S THIS AFTN. AS HI BUILDS OVR AREA TONITE...DECENT
RADIATIONAL COOLING AS SFC FLW BECOMES LGT...NR 30 NW TO MID 30S
S. WED...M/SUNNY AM...THEN INCR CI/AC PM WITH WAA WEST OF AREA.
MAY EVEN TURN OUT M/CLDY FAR NW. HIS WED NR 60 NW TO MID 60S S.

CVG  58/34/64/46  9003
DAY  56/32/62/44  9003
CMH  58/31/63/44  9002

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 23, 8:58 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILN	Miami	3 hr
Apr 23, 12:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Scioto	44 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Ohio, 1996 Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kentucky, 1996 Every 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.