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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 109, NWS Wilmington, OH

May 17, 2006Champaign County, Ohio

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 17, 2006, 7:36 PM EDT for Champaign County, Ohio. It was in force for 39 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 17, 2006, 7:36 PM EDT (23:36 UTC)
Expired: May 17, 2006, 8:15 PM EDT
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, OH
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Champaign County, OH

The radar

The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:39 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 17, 3:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 79 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 684 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 36 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 39 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 May 17, 7:31 PM EDT, 5 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 17, 7:31 PM EDT, 5 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 17, 5:02 AM EDT, 14 hours 34 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
502 AM EDT WED MAY 17 2006

INZ050-058-059-OHZ026-034-035-042>044-051>053-060>062-180915-
WAYNE-FAYETTE IN-UNION IN-HARDIN-MERCER-AUGLAIZE-DARKE-SHELBY-
LOGAN-MIAMI-CHAMPAIGN-CLARK-PREBLE-MONTGOMERY-GREENE-
502 AM EDT WED MAY 17 2006

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF EAST CENTRAL
INDIANA...MIAMI VALLEY OF OHIO AND WEST CENTRAL OHIO.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS LATE THIS AFTERNOON
INTO TONIGHT. A COLD FRONT WILL PUSH SOUTHEAST THROUGH THE GREAT
LAKES INTO THE OHIO VALLEY TONIGHT. THIS FEATURE WILL BE THE FOCUS
FOR THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT THIS AFTERNOON INTO TONIGHT.

WHILE LARGE HAIL WILL BE THE PRIMARY SEVERE WEATHER THREAT...DAMAGING
WINDS WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE. THE STORMS SHOULD TEND TO WEAKEN BY
LATE EVENING WITH THE LOSS OF DAYTIME HEATING.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED.

INZ066-073>075-080-KYZ089>100-OHZ045-046-054>056-063>065-070>074-
077>082-088-180915-
FRANKLIN IN-RIPLEY-DEARBORN-OHIO-SWITZERLAND-CARROLL-GALLATIN-
BOONE-KENTON-CAMPBELL-OWEN-GRANT-PENDLETON-BRACKEN-ROBERTSON-
MASON-LEWIS-UNION OH-DELAWARE-MADISON-FRANKLIN OH-LICKING-
FAYETTE OH-PICKAWAY-FAIRFIELD-BUTLER-WARREN-CLINTON-ROSS-HOCKING-
HAMILTON-CLERMONT-BROWN-HIGHLAND-ADAMS-PIKE-SCIOTO-
502 AM EDT WED MAY 17 2006

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST
INDIANA...NORTHEAST KENTUCKY...NORTHERN KENTUCKY...CENTRAL OHIO...
SOUTH CENTRAL OHIO AND SOUTHWEST OHIO.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED.

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 17, 3:59 PM EDT, 3 hours 37 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
359 PM EDT WED MAY 17 2006

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

0334 PM     HAIL             2 S HILLIARD            40.01N 83.14W
05/17/2006  E0.88 INCH       FRANKLIN           OH   TRAINED SPOTTER

            PENNY TO NICKEL SIZE HAIL COVERING THE GROUND

0340 PM     HAIL             COLUMBUS                39.99N 82.99W
05/17/2006  E0.75 INCH       FRANKLIN           OH   TRAINED SPOTTER

            ALONG I-70 1 MI WEST OF I-270

&&

HAWBLITZEL

Local storm report, May 17, 6:46 PM EDT, 50 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
646 PM EDT WED MAY 17 2006

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

0638 PM     TSTM WND DMG     RICHMOND                39.83N 84.89W
05/17/2006                   WAYNE              IN   TRAINED SPOTTER

            LARGE TREES DOWN

&&

ALANR

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 17, 5:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Fairfield, Pickaway	40 min
May 17, 5:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Fairfield	45 min
May 17, 6:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Darke, Preble	50 min
May 17, 7:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Miami	45 min
May 17, 6:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Wayne	40 min

Nearby

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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.