Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 189, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 19, 2004, 3:57 PM EDT for Logan County, Union County, Ohio. It was in force for 33 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
- Aug 19, 2004, 3:57 PM EDT (19:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 19, 2004, 4:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Logan County, OH, Union County, OH
The radar
The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:57 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 19, 3:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 265 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 768 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 85 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 250 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 Aug 19, 1:15 PM EDT, 2 hours 42 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 19, 1:15 PM EDT, 2 hours 42 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 19, 5:02 AM EDT, 10 hours 55 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 502 AM EDT THU AUG 19 2004 INZ050-058-059-066-073>075-080-KYZ089>100-OHZ026-034-035-042>046- 051>056-060>065-070>074-077>082-088-200905- 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- 502 AM EDT THU AUG 19 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EASTERN INDIANA...NORTHERN KENTUCKY AND THE SOUTHWEST QUARTER OF OHIO. .DAY ONE...TODAY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON ALONG AND AHEAD OF A COLD FRONT. A FEW OF THESE STORMS COULD BECOME STRONG TO SEVERE. THE STORMS WILL DIMINISH IN INTENSITY DURING THE EVENING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY MORE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED FRIDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH FRIDAY NIGHT AS WAVES OF LOW PRESSURE MOVE ALONG A SLOW MOVING COLD FRONT. THIS COULD RESULT IN HEAVY RAINFALL AND THUS THERE IS THE POTENTIAL FOR LOCALIZED FLOODING. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SINCE THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER IS EXPECTED TO BE ISOLATED TODAY...SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wilmington, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 19, 12:53 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Logan | 37 min |
| Aug 19, 1:14 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Union | 31 min |
| Aug 19, 5:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Darke | 58 min |
| Aug 19, 5:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Wayne | 34 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.