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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 185, NWS Wilmington, OH

July 8, 2001Franklin County, Indiana

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 8, 2001, 6:30 PM EST for Franklin County, Indiana. It was in force for 45 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: Jul 8, 2001, 6:30 PM EST (23:30 UTC)
Expired: Jul 8, 2001, 7:15 PM EST
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, OH
Area: Whole counties

County Franklin County, IN

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jul 8, 6:55 PM EST	Thunderstorm Wind 50 E	Countywide, IN	Trees knocked down across the county.

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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jul 8, 3:00 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 108 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: 3052 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -12 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 608 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 135 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 195 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.8
Supercell composite: 9.9

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

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 8, 2:19 PM EST, 4 hours 11 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 8, 2:19 PM EST, 4 hours 11 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
305 PM EDT SUN JUL 7 2001

LITTLE CHANGE IN UPPER PATTERN EXPECTED THROUGH THE PD. SEVERE WX
THREAT WILL CONTINUE INTO OVERNIGHT HOURS WITH BOUNDARY ACROSS
SOUTHERN PART OF FA. MODELS INDICATING A SFC WV DVLPG OVR NRN IL AND
DROPPING SE THRU OH VLY SUN NGT/MON. WL CONT HIGHEST POPS ACRS SRN
OH/NRN KY TNGT AND MON WHERE MST FAVORABLE PE/S AND LO LVL CNVRGC WL
BE IN PLACE.

CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE OVER ALL BUT NORTHERN PART OF
FA ON MON. WEAK BOUNDARY EXPECTED OVER AREA AGAIN ON TUESDAY AND
WILL INCLUDE CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION. REMAINDER OF THE WEEK LOOKS
DRY.

HOT AND HUMID WEATHER WILL CONTINUE THROUGH TUESDAY WITH A BIT OF A
COOLING TREND MID TO LATE WEEK. FORECAST TEMPS WILL BE CLOSE TO MOS
GUIDANCE.

.ILN...NONE.

PARKER

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 8, 12:45 PM EST, 5 hours 45 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON, OH
145 PM EDT SUN JUL 8 2001

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0125 PM    COUNTYWIDE                OH   WIND DAMAGE
07/08/01   FRANKLIN                       TREES DOWN COUNTYWIDE

0130 PM    LEWISBURG                 KY   WIND DAMAGE
07/08/01   MASON                          TREES DOWN

0134 PM    RISING SUN                IN    MPH TSTM WIND GUST
07/08/01   OHIO                           60 MPH GUST

0120 PM    COUNTYWIDE                IN   WIND DAMAGE
07/08/01   DEARBORN                       TREES DOWN ALL OVER COUNTY

0120 PMI    ORANGE                    IN   WIND DAMAGE
07/08/01   FAYETTE                        5 TREES DOWN

SEW

Local storm report, Jul 8, 1:38 PM EST, 4 hours 52 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 8, 2:13 PM EST, 4 hours 17 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON, OH
313 PM EDT SUN JUL 8 2001

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0100 PM    NORTHERN HALF             IN   WIND DAMAGE
07/08/01   RIPLEY                         6 TREES DOWN AND SOME
                                          SIDING TORN OFF A PORCH

0130 PM    COUNTYWIDE                KY   WIND DAMAGE
07/08/01   BOONE                          150-200 TREES DOWN ACROSS
                                          COUNTY

0150 PM    FAIRFIELD                 OH   WIND DAMAGE
07/08/01   BUTLER                         TREES DOWN IN WESTERN PART
                                          OF TOWN AND IN ROSS AND
                                          MORGAN TOWNSHIPS

0145 PM    COUNTYWIDE                KY   WIND DAMAGE
07/08/01   KENTON                         NUMEROUS TREES DOWN

0155 PM    COUNTYWIDE                KY   WIND DAMAGE
07/08/01   CAMPBELL                       TREES AND LINES DOWN ALL
                                          OVER COUNTY

0200 PM    COUNTYWIDE                KY   WIND DAMAGE
07/08/01   GALLATIN                       TREES DOWN ALL OVER

0245 PM    SPARTA                    KY   WIND DAMAGE
07/08/01   OWEN                           TREES DOWN IN SPARTA AND
                                          NEW LIBERTY

0220 PM    BROOKSVILLE               KY   WIND DAMAGE
07/08/01   BRACKEN                        TREES DOWN

SEW

Local storm report, Jul 8, 2:33 PM EST, 3 hours 57 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON, OH
333 PM EDT SUN JUL 8 2001

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0120 PM    BUTLER                    KY   WIND DAMAGE
07/08/01   PENDLETON                      COUPLE OF TREES DOWN

0150 PM    COUNTYWIDE                KY   WIND DAMAGE
07/08/01   PENDLETON                      TREES DOWN ALL OVER

0300 PM    TOLLESBORO                KY   WIND DAMAGE
07/08/01   LEWIS                          TREES DOWN AND A ROOF
                                          BLOWN OFF A BARN

0130 PM    COUNTYWIDE                KY   WIND DAMAGE
07/08/01   zMASON                          NUMEROUS TREES DOWN

SEW

Special weather statement, Jul 8, 3:15 PM EST, 3 hours 15 minutes before

KYZ097>100-OHZ079-081-088-082100-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
415 PM EDT SUN JUL 8 2001

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH (527) HAS BEEN CANCELLED...

THE SEVERcE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE MOVED TO THE SOUTHEAST OF SOUTHERN
OHIO AND NORTHEAST KENTUCKY.

 TIPTON

Local storm report, Jul 8, 5:25 PM EST, 1 hour 5 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON, OH
625 PM EDT SUN JUL 08 2001

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0215 PM    BROOKSVILLE               KY   WIND DAMAGE
07/08/01   BRACKEN                        *** 2 DEAD, 1 INJ ***
                                          MOBILE HOME BLOWN
                                          OVER

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 8, 12:26 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Madison	49 min
Jul 8, 12:39 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Fayette	51 min
Jul 8, 12:50 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Pickaway	40 min
Jul 8, 12:01 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Clermont	44 min
Jul 8, 12:20 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Hamilton	40 min
Jul 8, 12:20 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Butler	40 min
Jul 8, 12:54 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Clermont	51 min
Jul 8, 1:12 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Brown	63 min
Jul 8, 1:32 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Adams	58 min
Jul 8, 6:30 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Darke, Preble	45 min
Jul 8, 6:43 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Butler	47 min
Jul 8, 6:49 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Montgomery, Warren	56 min
Jul 8, 6:52 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Clermont, Hamilton	38 min
Jul 8, 11:22 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Mason	53 min
Jul 8, 12:14 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Mason	46 min
Jul 8, 12:23 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Pendleton	52 min
Jul 8, 12:36 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Gallatin	39 min
Jul 8, 12:39 PM EST	Flash Flood Warning	ILN	Mason	2 hr
Jul 8, 12:39 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Campbell, Kenton	51 min
Jul 8, 12:50 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Grant	40 min
Jul 8, 1:10 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Owen	65 min
Jul 8, 1:12 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Pendleton	63 min
Jul 8, 1:12 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Robertson	63 min
Jul 8, 11:47 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Fayette, Franklin	58 min
Jul 8, 11:47 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Ripley	58 min
Jul 8, 12:06 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Dearborn	39 min
Jul 8, 6:05 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Fayette, Union, Wayne	55 min
Jul 8, 6:41 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Dearborn, Ohio, Ripley	49 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Indiana, 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.