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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 156, NWS Wilmington, OH

July 3, 2001Switzerland County, Indiana

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 3, 2001, 2:48 PM EST for Switzerland County, Indiana. It was in force for 42 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
Jul 3, 2001, 2:48 PM EST (19:48 UTC)
Expired
Jul 3, 2001, 3:30 PM EST
In force
42 min
Issued by
NWS Wilmington, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Switzerland County, IN

The radar

The Louisville radar (KLVX), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 126 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 2001-07-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 2001-07-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 76 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1558 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
76 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
24 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 Jul 3, 1:58 PM EST, 50 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 3, 1:58 PM EST, 50 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
258 PM EDT TUE JUL 3 2001

WESTERLY FLOW ALOFT WILL PERSIST ACROSS THE OHIO VALLEY UNTIL LATE
THURSDAY AS VIGOROUS H5 CUTOFF SPINS THROUGH SOUTHEASTERN CANADA.
SHORT WAVE COMING OUR WAY FROM ILLINOIS WILL MOVE IN THIS
EVENING...WITH OTHER SHORT WAVES DUE TO INFLUENCE OUR AREA ON
WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY.

SFC MAP SHOWS OUR AREA EXPERIENCING THETA-E ADVECTION ON THE EAST
SIDE OF HIGH MOVING OFF THE MID ATLANTIC COAST.  MCS IS MOVING
THROUGH INDIANA INTO OHIO ROUGHLY ALONG THETA-E GRADIENT.

FOR TONIGHT...I'LL GO WITH EVENING PERIOD FOR CURRENT TSRA...THEN
CHANCE POPS OVERNIGHT. INSTABILITY WILL PERSIST ON WEDNESDAY...
WITH PVA AND SFC CONVERGENCE SO I'LL KEEP CHANCE POPS.

NEXT SHORT WAVE ON WEDNESDAY NIGHT INTO THURSDAY WILL MAINLY AFFECT
OUR SOUTHERN COUNTIES.  I'LL GO WITH CHANCE TSRA ALL ZONES WEDNESDAY
NIGHT WITH FRONT DUE TO CROSS THE AREA ACCOMPANIED BY PVA. FOR
THURSDAY...I'LL KEEP WEST CENTRAL ZONE DRY...USE MAINLY MORNING
WORDING FOR CHANCE TSRA DAY AND CMH...AND I WON'T INCLUDE ANY TIMING
IN THE SOUTH WHERE FRONT IS PROGGED ACROSS THE AREA FOR A GOOD PART
OF THE DAY.

FWC TEMPS LOOK A BIT WARM TONIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...THEN TOO COOL
WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY...SO I'LL ADJUST THEM ACCORDINGLY.

.ILN...NONE.

CONIGLIO

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 3, 3:52 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNOwen23 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Indiana, 2001Every 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.