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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 127, NWS Wilmington, OH

August 5, 2005Scioto County, Ohio

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 5, 2005, 6:06 PM EDT for Scioto County, Ohio. It was in force for 26 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 5, 2005, 6:06 PM EDT (22:06 UTC)
Expired
Aug 5, 2005, 6:32 PM EDT
In force
26 min
Issued by
NWS Wilmington, OH
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Scioto County, OH

The radar

The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:06 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 98 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, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 2005-08-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 848 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 2005-08-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -30 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
848 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-80 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1252 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
5 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-30 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-29 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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 Aug 5, 3:52 PM EDT, 2 hours 14 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 5, 3:52 PM EDT, 2 hours 14 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
352 PM EDT FRI AUG 5 2005

.SHORT TERM (TONIGHT THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT)...
SURFACE ANALYSIS IS A BIT COMPLEX WITH A BROAD DIFFUSE FRONT OVER FA.
IT APPEARS THE WIND SHIFT WITH THE COLD FRONT IS SOUTH OF THE OHIO
RIVER. HOWEVER...THE TD GRADIENT IS ALONG THE NORTHERN FORECAST
BORDER. KILN RADAR SHOWS SCATTERED CONVECTION SOUTH OF I-70 WITH
SOME LIGHT STRATIFORM RAIN NORTH OF I-70 AND INTO EASTERN INDIANA.

NAM AND GFS ARE IN PRETTY GOOD AGREEMENT WITH KEEPING LOW LEVEL
MOISTURE OVER FA WITH WIND SHIFT LINE SOUTH OF OHIO RIVER. FIRST
IMPRESSION WAS TO LEAVE FORECAST DRY WITH NO SYNOPTIC LIFT AND
WIND SHIFT LINE TO THE SOUTH OF FORECAST AREA. BUT WITH LOW LEVEL
MOISTURE RESULTING IN 1000 TO 2000 J/KG OVER FORECAST AREA AND A
WEAK WAVE DEPICTED ON THE NAM HAVE ADDED A 20 POP IN ACROSS THE
SOUTH. SIMILAR THINKING WAS USED FOR SUNDAY. HOWEVER, THE WIND
SHIFT BEGINS TO WORK NORTH INTO OHIO RIVER.

MAV TEMPS LOOK OK. MADE SOME MINOR ADJUSTMENTS TO HIGHS ON
SATURDAY FOR A LITTLE BETTER SUNSHINE THAN THE MAV EXPECTS AND
WARMED OVERNIGHT LOWS WITH LOW LEVEL MOISTURE HANGING AROUND.

TIPTON

&&

.LONG TERM (SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY)...
FOR SUNDAY DURING THE DAY...PREFER DRIER NAM SOLUTION. SO HAVE KEPT
20 POPS ACROSS THE SOUTH DURING THE DAY.  THE GFS IS QUICKER WITH
RETURNING PRECIPITATION TO THE CWA AND HAS A VORT PUSHING NORTH SUNDAY.
HAVE GRADUALLY INCREASED POPS INTO MONDAY MORNING FOR ENTIRE CWA.
AFTER SUNDAY...HAVE NOT CHANGED MUCH FROM PREVIOUS FORECAST.  GFS
STILL DEVELOPING A MID LEVEL TROUGH ACROSS THE REGION MIDWEEK.  HAVE
MAINLY STUCK WITH DIURNAL POPS AND CLOUD COVER EXPECT ON TUESDAY
INTO WEDNESDAY AS THE GFSLR ROTATES A STRONGER VORT THROUGH THE
TROUGH.  HAVE STAYED NEAR OR SLIGHTLY ABOVE GUIDANCE FOR TEMPS.

&&

.PREVIOUS DISCUSSIONS...

THE FOLLOWING WAS ISSUED AT 134 PM EDT FRI AUG 5 2005

AVIATION (18Z-18Z)...
FRNTL BNDRY ACRS REGION ATTM. FEW AREAS OF -SHRA ALONG AND NORTH
OF FRNTL BNDRY...CURRENTLY AFFECTING NRN TAF SITES
(KDAY/KCMH/KLCK). IMPRESSIVE TSTM CLUSTER MOVING ACRS SE INDIANA
APPEARS DESTINED TO AFFECT KCVG AND KLUK BY 1830-19Z TIME FRAME.
HAVE PLACED PREVAILING VCSH IN AT BOTH KCVG/KLUK/KILN WITH TEMPO
-TSRA THRU 22Z TO ACCOUNT FOR APPCHG CONVECTION. AT THIS
POINT...LOOKS LIKE THESE STORMS WOULD STAY SOUTH AND WEST OF
KILN...BUT MAY SEE THESE STORMS DVLP A LITTLE FURTHER TO NORTH AND
EAST AS AFTN PROGRESSES. FURTHER NORTH...ATMOSPHERE HAS BEEN
WORKED OVER PRETTY GOOD FROM MORNING CONVECTION SO NOT EXPECTING
ANY THUNDER. WILL KEEP VCSH INTO ERLY EVNG TO ACCOUNT FOR WDLY SCT
-SHRA. FRNTL BNDRY LOOKS TO WASH OUT SOMEWHERE ALONG/JUST SOUTH OF
OHIO RIVER OVERNIGHT. PREDOMINANT AC DECK ACRS REGION LIKELY TO
HANG THRU THE NIGHT AT ALL TAF SITES. ALL TAF SITES HAVE DEALT
WITH MVFR HZ TO SOME EXTENT OVER LAST FEW HOURS...AND WITH FRNTL
BNDRY REMAINING IN THE AREA...EXPECT VSBYS TO REMAIN IN THE 3-5SM
RANGE AT KCVG/KLUK/KILN THRU TAF FCST PERIOD. THINK ENUF DRY AIR
WILL WORK INTO DAYTON/CMH METRO AREAS TO ALLOW A BRIEF RETURN TO
VFR VSBYS FOR LATE AFTN/EVNG BEFORE DROPPING BACK TO MVFR. CANNOT
RULE OUT A COUPLE ISOLD -SHRA OVERNIGHT IN CVG AREA INVOF FRNTL
BNDRY. WILL LEAVE OUT OF KCVG/KLUK TAFS ATTM AS COVERAGE SHOULD
REMAIN VERY SPOTTY. OTHER THAN SOME LINGERING MVFR HZ IN CVG AREA
SAT MRNG...CONDITIONS SHOULD IMPROVE TO VFR.

RYAN

&&

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

 &&
Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 5, 5:01 AM EDT, 13 hours 5 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
501 AM EDT FRI AUG 5 2005

INZ050-058-059-066-073>075-080-KYZ089>100-OHZ026-034-035-042>046-
051>056-060>065-070>074-077>082-088-060900-
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-
501 AM EDT FRI AUG 5 2005

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...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED.

SITES

In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 5, 4:33 PM EDT, 1 hour 33 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 5, 3:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNHighland40 min
Aug 5, 1:42 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNRipley25 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Ohio, 2005Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2005

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.