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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 51, NWS Wilmington, OH

May 24, 2004Madison County, Union County, Ohio

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 2004, 1:42 AM EDT for Madison 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: May 24, 2004, 1:42 AM EDT (05:42 UTC)
Expired: May 24, 2004, 2:15 AM EDT
In force: 33 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, OH
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Madison County, OH, Union County, OH

The radar

The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:43 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
May 24, 12:30 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 82 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: 839 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -37 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1585 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 173 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 169 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.3
Supercell composite: 5.3

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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 May 23, 9:00 PM EDT, 4 hours 42 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 23, 9:00 PM EDT, 4 hours 42 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
900 PM EDT SUN MAY 23 2004

.DISCUSSION...
EXTENT OF LINE OF SHOWERS/THUNDERSTORMS MOVING ACROSS INDIANA
REMAINS LIMITED ALONG THE SOUTHERN EDGE. WITH SURFACE BASED
INSTABILITIES NOW DROPPING OFF...WILL GO AHEAD AND TRIM BACK POPS
SOME ACROSS INDIANA COUNTIES. WILL ALSO REMOVE POPS FOR TONIGHT
ACROSS THE PMH AREA.
&&

.ILN WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
IN...NONE.
KY...NONE.
OH...NONE.

&&

Hazardous weather outlook, May 23, 5:03 AM EDT, 20 hours 39 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
503 AM EDT SUN MAY 23 2004

INZ050-058-059-066-073>075-080-KYZ089>100-OHZ026-034-035-042>046-
051>056-060>065-070>074-077>082-088-231102-
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-
503 AM EDT SUN MAY 23 2004

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...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY

THUNDERSTORMS WILL OCCUR FROM TIME TO TIME.  SOME OF THE
THUNDERSTORMS MAY REACH SEVERE LIMITS.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 23, 10:57 PM EDT, 2 hours 45 minutes before

INZ050-058-059-066-073-074-OHZ034-035-042-043-051-060-061-070-071-
077-240330-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
1057 PM EDT SUN MAY 23 2004

THE TORNADO WATCH THAT WAS IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF EASTERN INDIANA
HAS BEEN REPLACED BY A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH THAT ALSO NOW
INCLUDES FAR WESTERN OHIO.

THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES ARE INCLUDED IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH
NUMBER 269.

IN INDIANA...

WAYNE...FAYETTE...UNION...FRANKLIN...RIPLEY AND DEARBORN.

IN OHIO...
MERCER...AUGLAIZE...SHELBY...DARKE...MIAMI...PREBLE...MONTGOMERY...
BUTLER...WARREN AND HAMILTON.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 24, 12:21 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Darke, Preble	39 min
May 24, 12:47 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Miami, Montgomery	43 min
May 24, 1:10 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Champaign, Clark, Greene	35 min
May 23, 11:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Fayette, Wayne	47 min
May 24, 12:32 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Franklin	43 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.