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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 223, NWS Wilmington, OH

July 12, 2003Lewis County, Kentucky

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 12, 2003, 5:15 PM EDT for Lewis County, Kentucky. It was in force for 15 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 12, 2003, 5:15 PM EDT (21:15 UTC)
Expired: Jul 12, 2003, 5:30 PM EDT
In force: 15 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, OH
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Lewis County, KY

The radar

The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:15 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.

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 12, 12:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr
Jul 12, 5:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 106 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: 383 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -59 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 968 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 35 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 52 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 1.2

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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 Jul 12, 2:40 PM EDT, 2 hours 35 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 12, 2:40 PM EDT, 2 hours 35 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
240 PM EDT SAT JUL 12 2003

SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAD DEVELOPED ALONG A LINE FROM CENTRAL
OHIO SOUTHWEST THROUGH SOUTHEAST INDIANA THIS AFTERNOON. S/WV TO
DROP SE THROUGH SOUTHERN IND AND NORTHERN KY THIS EVENING PROVIDING
PVA. THESE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP
THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING...MAINLY ALONG
THIS LINE AND TO THE SOUTH AND EAST. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH WAS
ISSUED FOR MOST OF THIS AREA AT ABOUT 1 PM.

UPPER LOW OVER CANADA WILL CONTINUE NW FLOW OVER REGION THROUGH
MONDAY. SURFACE BOUNDARY/FRONT ACROSS SOUTHERN OHIO AND INDIANA THIS
AFTERNOON WILL BE SOUTH OF FORECAST AREA SUNDAY WITH SURFACE HIGH
PRESSURE BUILDING INTO AREA.

SFC HI PRES TO DOMINATE ON SUN. WILL GO CLOSE TO CURRENT TEMPERATURE
FORECAST...BUT A DEGREE WARMER TONIGHT AND SUNDAY. NEXT CHC FOR
PRECIP STILL LOOKS TO BE ON WED WITH NEXT FNTL SYS.

.ILN...NONE.

MJP

Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 12, 5:00 AM EDT, 12 hours 15 minutes before

INZ050-058-059-066-073>075-080-KYZ089>100-OHZ026-034-035-042>046-
051>056-060>065-070>074-077>082-088-121100-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
500 AM EDT SAT JUL 12 2003

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

.DAY ONE...TODAY

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED.

In the hours before

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Local storm report, Jul 12, 4:31 PM EDT, 44 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 12, 4:52 PM EDT, 23 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 12, 5:08 PM EDT, 7 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 12, 2:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Highland	33 min
Jul 12, 2:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Licking	32 min
Jul 12, 3:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Pike	22 min
Jul 12, 3:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Hocking	24 min
Jul 12, 4:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Scioto	55 min
Jul 12, 4:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Adams	30 min
Jul 11, 8:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Wayne	38 min
Jul 11, 8:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Fayette	27 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kentucky, 2003 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2003

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.