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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 117, NWS Wilmington, OH

June 8, 2003Hocking County, Ohio

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 8, 2003, 4:42 PM EDT for Hocking County, Ohio. It was in force for 48 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: Jun 8, 2003, 4:42 PM EDT (20:42 UTC)
Expired: Jun 8, 2003, 5:30 PM EDT
In force: 48 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, OH
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Hocking County, OH

The radar

The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:43 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.

The watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 8, 11:40 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr
Jun 8, 4:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 114 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: 112 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -23 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 825 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 44 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 75 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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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 Jun 8, 1:30 PM EDT, 3 hours 12 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 8, 1:30 PM EDT, 3 hours 12 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
130 PM EDT SUN JUN 8 2003

SQUALL LINE CURRENTLY DEVELOPING ACROSS ILN FA...WILL CONTINUE E
THROUGHOUT THE AFTERNOON. MAY HAVE TO DEAL WITH LEFT OVER PRECIP
INTO THIS EVENING...WILL CONTINUE TO MONITOR.

AFTER IMPRESSIVE S/W MOVES E OF AREA THIS EVENING...EXPECT PARTIAL
CLEARING. POST FRONTAL TROUGH WILL MOVE IN BEHIND CLD FRONT LATER
TONIGHT AND MONDAY. EXPECT SOME CLOUDINESS WITH THIS FEATURE...MAYBE
AND ISOLATED SHOWER OR SPRINKLE TOMORROW...ESPECIALLY NRN PORTION OF
FA. SFC RIDGE SHOULD THEN CONTROL OUR WX THROUGH LATE TUESDAY.

NEXT SYSTEM FOR TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY LOOKS QUITE DYNAMIC.
CURRENT PROBLEM WITH THIS SYSTEM WILL BE TIMING OF ONSET OF PRECIP.
AM CURRENTLY CONSIDERING INITIATING CHC POPS LATER TUESDAY. THIS
SYSTEM SHOULD DROP A FRONTAL ZONE THROUGH OUR FA ON WEDNESDAY AND
LAY IT OUT JUST S OF OUR AREA FOR WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY. THIS
WILL PROMP US TO KEEP CHC POPS ACROSS THE SOUTH DURING THIS TIME
FRAME.

THE EXTENDED HAS POSED A PROBLEM OF WHERE TO POSITION THE WRM FRONT.
WITH SUCH VARIATION IN THE MODELS...DECIDED ON A BLEND AT THIS TIME.

.ILN...NONE.

JTD

Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 8, 5:30 AM EDT, 11 hours 12 minutes before

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051>056-060>065-070>074-077>082-088-081130-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
530 AM EDT SUN JUN 8 2003

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EASTERN INDIANA...NORTHERN
KENTUCKY AND THE SOUTHWEST QUARTER OF OHIO.

.DAY ONE...TODAY

THUNDERSTORMS WILL BECOME LIKELY THIS AFTERNOON.  SOME OF THE
THUNDERSTORMS MAY BE SEVERE.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY

SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE TUESDAY EVENING THROUGH
SATURDAY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 8, 3:04 PM EDT, 1 hour 38 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON, OH
304 PM EDT SUN JUN 8 2003

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

0258 PM    BLUE ASH                  OH   WIND DAMAGE
06/08/03   HAMILTON                       FEW LARGE LIMBS REPORTED
                                          DOWN REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT.

Local storm report, Jun 8, 3:49 PM EDT, 53 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON, OH
349 PM EDT SUN JUN 8 2003

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

0250 PM    MASON                     OH   WIND DAMAGE
06/08/03   WARREN                         TREES DOWN...REPORTED BY
                                          LAW ENFORCEMENT.

0305 PM    MAINEVILLE                OH   WIND DAMAGE
06/08/03   WARREN                         TREES DOWN...REPORTED BY
                                          TRAINED SPOTTER.

Local storm report, Jun 8, 4:06 PM EDT, 36 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON, OH
406 PM EDT SUN JUN 8 2003

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

0405 PM    WASHINGTON COURT HOUSE    OH   FLOOD
06/08/03   FAYETTE                        WATER IN FIELDS...REPORTED
                                          BY TRAINED SPOTTER.

Local storm report, Jun 8, 4:14 PM EDT, 28 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON, OH
414 PM EDT SUN JUN 8 2003

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

0405 PM    WASHINGTON COURT HOUSE    OH   WIND DAMAGE
06/08/03   FAYETTE                        LARGE LIMBS
                                          DOWN...REPORTED BY TRAINED
                                          SPOTTER.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 8, 2:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Hamilton	42 min
Jun 8, 3:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Warren	44 min
Jun 8, 3:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Fayette	52 min
Jun 8, 4:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Pickaway	47 min
Jun 8, 4:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Ross	43 min
Jun 8, 4:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Licking	24 min
Jun 8, 4:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Fairfield	37 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.