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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 119, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 1, 2004, 5:01 PM EDT for Greene County, Ohio. It was in force for 29 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 1, 2004, 5:01 PM EDT (21:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 1, 2004, 5:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Greene County, OH
The radar
The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 31 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 1, 3:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 30 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -126 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1584 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 93 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 87 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 1, 3:20 PM EDT, 1 hour 41 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 1, 3:20 PM EDT, 1 hour 41 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 320 PM EDT JUN 1 2004 .DISCUSSION... S/WV MOVNG INTO INDIANA ATTM WITH TSTMS BECOMING MORE ROBUST BTWN KCVG AND KSDF. TSTM THAT JUST WENT THRU KCVG PRODUCED 38 KT GUST AND LKLY SOME SMALL HAIL. MORE CONVECTION BEGINNING TO DVLP TO NORTH OF I-70 BTWN KIND AND KDAY ALONG SFC TROF/CONFLUENCE BNDRY. SHORT TERM FCST WILL FOCUS ON CHANCE FOR TSTMS FOR LATE AFTN/EVNG. SERIES OF S/WVS VERY EVIDENT ON WATER VAPOR SAT WILL ROTATE THRU FCST AREA OVER NEXT 6-8 HOURS. MODEL SOUNDINGS SUPPORTING SRH VALUES ABV 200 M2/S2 AND 0-6 KM SHEAR VALUES APPCHG 40 KTS. SHEAR WILL HELP TO SUSTAIN TSTMS AND ALLOW FOR A COUPLE OF SVR STORMS. SPC HAS PLACED MUCH OF FCST AREA IN SLGT RISK FOR SVR STORMS. HAIL AND WIND DMG BOTH POSSIBLE...WITH WBZERO LEVELS BTWN 7-8KFT (PLENTY COLD AIR ALOFT) AND DELTA THETA-E VALUES AROUND 15K. GREATEST RISK FOR CONVECTION WILL BE ALONG AND SOUTH OF I-70...WITH ACTIVITY SHIFTING EAST INTO EVNG. CIN VALUES WILL INCREASE TO NEAR 100 J/KG BY LATE EVNG AND WITH LOSS OF DAYTIME HEATING...EXPECT TSTMS WILL WEAKEN BY 04Z. GENERALLY DRY FOR REMAINDER OF NIGHT AS WEAK NVA DVLPS BEHIND EVNG S/WVS. FRNTL BNDRY ALONG ELONGATED UPR TROF WILL SWING SOUTH INTO FCST AREA DURING THE DAY WED. MORE CLOUDS EXPECTED AND DECENT LO LVL CONV SUGGEST GOOD CHANCE FOR SHRA. WEAK INSTABILITY DVLPG DURING AFTN SHOULD ALLOW FOR FEW TSTMS...BUT AT THIS POINT SVR POTENTIAL LOOKS MINIMAL TO NIL. BOTH ETA/GFS SWINGING UPR TROF AXIS THRU REGION LITTLE FASTER THAN PREV RUNS WED EVNG. FRNTL BNDRY/UPR TROF AXIS EAST OF FCST AREA BY 06Z THURS...WITH SFC HI PRES BUILDING INTO REGION. DRY WX FOR THURS/FRI AS HI PRES MOVES ACRS OH VLY/LWR GRT LKS AND UPR LVL RIDGING DVLPS. TEMPS...MAV GUID LOOKED GOOD AND FOLLOWED THRU THURS NIGHT. WITH SFC HI PROGGED TO BE CENTERED OVER REGION THURS NIGHT...CLEAR SKIES AND LGT WINDS WILL ALLOW FOR COOL NIGHT. COULD SEE A FEW LOCATIONS DROP INTO U40S ACRS NRN FCST AREA. EXTENDED...AS SFC HI SHIFTS EAST OF FCST AREA FRI...SW RETURN FLO WILL BRING WARMER AND MORE HUMID WEATHER BACK INTO OH VLY. FRNTL BNDRY WILL APPCH FCST AREA SAT NIGHT/SUN WITH NEXT CHANCE OF TSTMS && .ILN WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... IN...NONE. KY...NONE. OH...NONE. && RYAN
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 1, 5:00 AM EDT, 12 hours 1 minute before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 500 AM EDT TUE JUN 1 2004 INZ050-058-059-066-073>075-080-KYZ089>100-OHZ026-034-035-042>046- 051>056-060>065-070>074-077>082-088-010900- ADAMS OH-AUGLAIZE OH-BOONE KY-BRACKEN KY-BROWN OH-BUTLER OH- CAMPBELL KY-CARROLL KY-CHAMPAIGN OH-CLARK OH-CLERMONT OH-CLINTON OH- DARKE OH-DEARBORN IN-DELAWARE OH-FAIRFIELD OH-FAYETTE OH-FAYETTE IN- FRANKLIN OH-FRANKLIN IN-GALLATIN KY-GRANT KY-GREENE OH-HAMILTON OH- HARDIN OH-HIGHLAND OH-HOCKING OH-KENTON KY-LEWIS KY-LICKING OH- LOGAN OH-MADISON OH-MASON KY-MERCER OH-MIAMI OH-MONTGOMERY OH- OHIO IN-OWEN KY-PENDLETON KY-PICKAWAY OH-PIKE OH-PREBLE OH-RIPLEY IN- ROBERTSON KY-ROSS OH-SCIOTO OH-SHELBY OH-SWITZERLAND IN-UNION OH- UNION IN-WARREN OH-WAYNE IN- 500 AM EDT TUE JUN 1 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EASTERN INDIANA...NORTHERN KENTUCKY AND THE SOUTHWEST QUARTER OF OHIO. .DAY ONE...TODAY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON AND THEN CONTINUE INTO TONIGHT. A FEW OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY THIS EVENING. THE PRIMARY SEVERE WEATHER THREAT WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED LATER TODAY.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 1, 11:05 AM EDT, 5 hours 56 minutes before
INZ050-058-059-066-073>075-080-KYZ089>100-OHZ026-034-035-042>046- 051>056-060>065-070>074-077>082-088-012200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 1105 AM EDT TUE JUN 1 2004 ...THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING... THE ATMOSPHERE ACROSS THE REGION WILL BECOME UNSTABLE THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON AS A COLD FRONT APPROACHES FROM THE WEST. AS IT DOES...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP BETWEEN 3 PM EDT AND 6 PM EDT. THE POSSIBILITY EXISTS THAT SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BECOME SEVERE LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY THIS EVENING. THE PRIMARY SEVERE WEATHER THREAT WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY THIS EVENING. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER ALL HAZARDS RADIO AND OTHER LOCAL MEDIA FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR UPDATES.
Local storm report, Jun 1, 1:40 PM EDT, 3 hours 21 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
140 PM EDT TUE JUN 01 2004
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0200 AM TSTM WND DMG NEW BOSTON 38.75N 82.93W
05/31/2004 SCIOTO OH OTHER FEDERAL
LARGE LIMBS AND BRANCHES DOWN
&&
RLGLocal storm report, Jun 1, 3:51 PM EDT, 1 hour 10 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Wilmington, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 1, 4:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Montgomery | 51 min |
| Jun 1, 4:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Madison | 48 min |
| Jun 1, 4:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Champaign | 46 min |
| Jun 1, 5:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Franklin, Pickaway | 45 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Ohio, 2004Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2004
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.