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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 106, NWS Wilmington, OH

May 24, 2001Clark County, Ohio

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 2001, 3:04 PM EDT for Clark County, Ohio. It was in force for 41 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: May 24, 2001, 3:04 PM EDT (19:04 UTC)
Expired: May 24, 2001, 3:45 PM EDT
In force: 41 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, OH
Area: Whole counties

County Clark County, OH

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 24, 3:15 PM EDT	Hail 0.75	Catawba, OH	Hail reported covering the ground

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, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 54 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: 20 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -19 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 724 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 57 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 61 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 160 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 24, 2:37 PM EDT, 27 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 24, 2:37 PM EDT, 27 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
237 PM EDT THU MAY 24 2001

LARGE MID LVL LOW CONTINUES TO SPIN AND DROP SLOWLY SEWD THIS PM.
DAYTIME HEATING HAS COMBINED WITH COLD TEMPS ALOFT TO PRODUCE A FEW
REPORTS OF LARGE HAIL.  XPCT THIS ACTIVITY TO CONTINUE THROUGH THE
EVENING HOURS BEFORE DIMINISHING.

ETA DEVELOPS ANOTHER SYNOPTIC WAVE OVERNIGHT SIMILAR TO THIS
MORNING'S WAVE.  COMBINED WITH THIS EVENINGS ACTIVITY WL CARRY
LIKELY POPS ALL AREAS.

MID LVL LOW IS PROGD TO MOVE INTO THE OH VLY ON FRI.  XPCT SOME
MORNING SHRA FOLLOWED BY PARTIAL CLEARING AND PM TSRA DEVELOPMENT.
COULD HAVE MORE HAIL ON FRI.

WL CONTINUE SHOWER CHANCES THRO"UGH MON AS MODELS PROG LOW TO REMAIN
IN OUR VCNTY.

GUIDANCE TEMPS IN THE BALLPARK SO WL STAY CLOSE.

.ILN...NONE.

WILKINSON

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 24, 1:25 PM EDT, 1 hour 39 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 24, 1:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Montgomery	45 min
May 24, 2:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Greene	45 min
May 24, 7:34 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	ILN	Clinton	26 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Ohio, 2001 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2001

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.