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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 198, NWS Wilmington, OH

November 24, 2004Highland County, Ohio

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 24, 2004, 7:00 PM EST for Highland County, Ohio. It was in force for 45 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: Nov 24, 2004, 7:00 PM EST (00:00 UTC)
Expired: Nov 24, 2004, 7:45 PM EST
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, OH
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Highland County, OH

The radar

The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 32 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:12 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
Nov 24, 6:25 PM EST	Tornado Watch	SPC	4 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 32 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: 186 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -8 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 866 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 79 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 323 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 349 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.4
Supercell composite: 2.9

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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 Nov 24, 7:00 PM EST, 0 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 24, 7:00 PM EST, 0 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Nov 24, 11:49 AM EST, 7 hours 11 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
1149 AM EST WED NOV 24 2004

INZ050-058-059-066-073>075-080-KYZ089>100-OHZ026-034-035-042>046-
051>056-060>065-070>074-077>082-088-251000-
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-
1149 AM EST WED NOV 24 2004

.DAY ONE...TODAY

THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER IN NORMAN OKLAHOMA HAS PLACED SOUTHEAST
INDIANA...NORTHERN KENTUCKY...SOUTHWEST AND SOUTH CENTRAL  OHIO IN A
MODERATE RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.
THE REMAINDER OF THE WHITEWATER AND MIAMI VALLEYS ALONG WITH CENTRAL
OHIO ARE IN A SLIGHT RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.  WEST CENTRAL
OHIO IS NOT IN A SLIGHT RISK...HOWEVER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE
POSSIBLE.

A WARM FRONT WILL CONTINUE TO LIFT NORTH INTO CENTRAL INDIANA AND
OHIO THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.  AS IT DOES...A STRONG LOW PRESSURE
SYSTEM WILL PUSH EAST ALONG THE FRONT THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.
AHEAD OF THE LOW...AN UNSEASONABLY WARM...MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIRMASS
WILL BE PULLED NORTH INTO THE OHIO VALLEY.

THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON OVER WESTERN KENTUCKY AND
SOUTHEAST INDIANA.  THESE STORMS WILL MOVE RAPIDLY INTO THE TRI-STATE
BY LATE AFTERNOON OR EARLY THIS EVENING AND SOUTH CENTRAL OHIO AND
NORTHEAST KENTUCKY BY THIS EVENING.

SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS MAY BE SEVERE WITH DAMAGING WINDS AS THE
PRIMARY THREAT. HOWEVER...ISOLATED TORNADOES WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED.

 TIPTON

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Nov 24, 5:14 PM EST, 1 hour 46 minutes before

INZ050-058-059-066-242300-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
514 PM EST WED NOV 24 2004

A THUNDERSTORM THAT IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO WAS LOCATED
ABOUT 30 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CONNERSVILLE INDIANA NEAR GREENSBURG.
THE STORM IS MOVING NORTHEAST ABOUT 50 MPH AND MAY AFFECT NORTHWEST
FRANKLIN COUNTY AND FAYETTE COUNTY BY 6 PM. DAMAGING WINDS AND
POSSIBLY A TORNADO WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

STAY TUNED FOR ANY UPDATES OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

PADGETT

Local storm report, Nov 24, 6:18 PM EST, 42 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
618 PM EST WED NOV 24 2004

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0535 PM     TSTM WND DMG     5 W LAUREL              39.50N 85.28W
11/24/2004                   FRANKLIN           IN   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            TWO HOMES SUSTAINED DAMAGE IN ANDERSONVILLE. POWER LINES
            DOWNED AT THE INTERSECTION OF US ROUTE 52 AND COUNTY ROAD
            800 E ON THE RUSH/FRANKLIN COUNTY BORDER.

0541 PM     TORNADO          5 NW CONNERSVILLE       39.71N 85.21W
11/24/2004                   FAYETTE            IN   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            POSSIBLE TORNADO TOUCHDOWN 1 MILE NORTH OF HARRISBURG

0603 PM     FUNNEL CLOUD     3 N LIBERTY             39.68N 84.93W
11/24/2004                   UNION              IN   FIRE DEPT/RESCUE

            REPORTED BY FIRE DEPARTMENT NORTH OF TOWN

&&

RYAN

Local storm report, Nov 24, 6:49 PM EST, 11 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
649 PM EST WED NOV 24 2004

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0645 PM     TSTM WND DMG     3 N UNION CITY          40.24N 84.79W
11/24/2004                   DARKE              OH   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            POWER LINES DOWN NEAR STATE LINE NORTH OF UNION CITY

&&

RYAN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 24, 7:44 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Pickaway, Ross	46 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Ohio, 2004 Every 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.