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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Wilmington, OH

May 17, 2004Adams County, Ohio

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 17, 2004, 7:25 PM EDT for Adams County, Ohio. It was in force for 35 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
May 17, 2004, 7:25 PM EDT (23:25 UTC)
Expired
May 17, 2004, 8:00 PM EDT
In force
35 min
Issued by
NWS Wilmington, OH
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Adams County, OH

The radar

The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:26 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 nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 322 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 12:00Z on 2004-05-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 2004-05-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 22 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
894 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
22 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-7 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.

903 
WUUS51 KILN 172325 RRA
SVRILN
OHC001-180000-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
726 PM EDT MON MAY 17 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  ADAMS COUNTY IN OHIO

* UNTIL 800 PM EDT

* AT 716 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS
  OF 60 MPH AND LARGE HAIL.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR PEEBLES...OR
  ABOUT 24 MILES WEST OF PORTSMOUTH...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  PEEBLES...

LARGE HAIL IS LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN THE STORMS
PATH...TAKE COVER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE UNTIL THE STORM PASSES.

LAT...LON 3905 8335 3905 8332 3901 8328 3882 8328
      3883 8331 3886 8336 3886 8337 3892 8346

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 17, 3:18 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNClinton42 min
May 17, 6:31 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNPreble29 min
May 17, 6:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNChampaign43 min
May 17, 7:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNHocking40 min
May 17, 7:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNShelby50 min
May 17, 7:36 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNLogan39 min
May 17, 7:49 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNBrown, Clermont26 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.