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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Wilmington, OH

April 19, 2002Hamilton County, Ohio

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 19, 2002, 4:14 PM EDT for Hamilton County, Ohio. It was in force for 46 min. 2 reports 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 19, 2002, 4:14 PM EDT (20:14 UTC)
Expired
Apr 19, 2002, 5:00 PM EDT
In force
46 min
Issued by
NWS Wilmington, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Hamilton County, OH

The radar

The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:18 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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
Apr 19, 4:15 PM EDTHail 0.75Groesbeck, OH
Apr 19, 4:41 PM EDTHail 0.75Blue Ash, OHMajor hail damage to homes, cars and buildings occurred in a swath from Montgomery and Blue Ash into Symmes Township and Loveland.

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, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 69 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 2002-04-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 303 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 2002-04-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 139 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
303 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-128 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1572 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
139 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
29 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS51 KILN 192014
SVRILN
OHC061-192100-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
413 PM EDT FRI APR 19 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  HAMILTON COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST OHIO...

* UNTIL 500 PM EDT...

* AT 413 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES NORTHWEST OF CLEVES...OR ABOUT 4 MILES
  NORTHEAST OF HIDDEN VALLEY...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  BLUE ASH...
  CHEVIOT...
  CINCINNATI...
  CLEVES...
  DEER PARK...
  FINNEYTOWN...
 

THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL.

$$

RYAN

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 19, 4:48 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNClermont42 min
Apr 19, 4:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNWarren51 min
Apr 19, 5:21 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNClinton39 min
Apr 19, 5:42 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNHighland63 min
Apr 19, 5:52 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNClermont38 min
Apr 19, 5:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNWarren51 min
Apr 19, 5:57 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNFayette48 min
Apr 19, 6:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNHamilton61 min
Apr 19, 6:23 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNLogan52 min
Apr 19, 6:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNClinton50 min
Apr 19, 6:29 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNRoss46 min
Apr 19, 7:07 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNUnion38 min

Nearby

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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.