Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 208, NWS Wilmington, OH

July 29, 2001Fairfield County, Ohio

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 29, 2001, 6:49 AM EDT for Fairfield 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
Jul 29, 2001, 6:49 AM EDT (10:49 UTC)
Expired
Jul 29, 2001, 7:30 AM EDT
In force
41 min
Issued by
NWS Wilmington, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Fairfield County, OH

The radar

The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:53 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jul 29, 7:00 AM EDTHail 0.75Amanda, OHThunderstorms produced dime size hail.

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

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 227 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, Pittsburgh, PA at 00:00Z on 2001-07-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 28 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, Pittsburgh, PA at 00:00Z on 2001-07-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 5 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
28 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-6 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
929 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
5 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
97 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 29, 2:30 AM EDT, 4 hours 19 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 29, 2:30 AM EDT, 4 hours 19 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
230 AM EDT SUN JUL 29 2001

ALL MODELS DROP VORT ACROSS THE FA EARLY TODAY...BUT DIFFER A LITTLE
ON TIMING.  ETA/AVN A LITTLER QUICKER THAN NGM AS THEY HAVE VORT
INTO WV BY 18Z...WHILE NGM HOLDS IT BACK INTO OH.  PCPN ALWAYS SEEM
TO HOLD ON LITTLE LONGER THAN MODELS EXPECT IN THE SE...SO WILL
SLOW THINGS DOWN AND LINGER PCPN IN THE SE INTO THE AFTERNOON.  ALL
MODELS SHOW NEGATIVE LI IN THE AFTERNOON ACROSS THE WEST...BUT THERE
IS GOOD SUBSIDENCE IN THE AFTERNOON...SO FEEL THAT ANY CONVECTION
WILL BE SUPPRESSED.

PW REMAIN AROUND TWO INCHES DURING THE MORNING HOURS...AND WITH VORT
STILL TO SWING THROUGH...WILL LEAVE FFA ALONE.

SECOND VORT DROPS SE INTO THE OH OVERNIGHT.  AVN A LITTLE QUICKER
BRINGING A LOBE INTO THE FA BY LATE AFTERNOON.  PREFER THE SLOWER
ETA SOLUTION. WITH VORT COMING IN OVERNIGHT...ATMOSPHERE SHOULD HAVE
LOST SOME OF ITS INSTABILITY. WILL KEEP TONIGHT DRY.

HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS IN FOR MONDAY.

AS FOR TEMPERATURES MOS LOOKS TO BE RUNNING WARM BY A DEGREE OR SO
EACH PERIOD...SO WILL GO CLOSER TO CURRENT FORECAST.

CLEMISILN OUT LATER.

.ILN...FLA9SH FLOOD WATCH TIL 8 AM EDT FOR SE INDIANA...SW OH...
         N CNTRL KY
       FLASH FLOOD WATCH TIL NOON FOR S CNTRL OH AND NE KY.

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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.