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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 111, NWS Wilmington, OH

May 17, 2006Gallatin County, Kentucky

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 17, 2006, 10:16 PM EDT for Gallatin County, Kentucky. It was in force for 23 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, 10:16 PM EDT (02:16 UTC)
Expired: May 17, 2006, 10:39 PM EDT
In force: 23 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, OH
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Gallatin County, KY

The radar

The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:15 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 nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 118 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: 386 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1352 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 57 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 127 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.6

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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, 2 hours 45 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 17, 7:31 PM EDT, 2 hours 45 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 17, 5:02 AM EDT, 17 hours 14 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, 6:46 PM EDT, 3 hours 30 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

Local storm report, May 17, 7:55 PM EDT, 2 hours 21 minutes before

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

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

0550 PM     HAIL             7 W LANCASTER           39.72N 82.73W
05/17/2006  E0.75 INCH       FAIRFIELD          OH   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            PENNY SIZE HAIL IN ROYALTON

0700 PM     FLOOD            7 W LANCASTER           39.72N 82.73W
05/17/2006                   FAIRFIELD          OH   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            WATER OVER ROYALTON ROAD

0750 PM     HAIL             1 S URBANA              40.09N 83.75W
05/17/2006  E0.75 INCH       CHAMPAIGN          OH   TRAINED SPOTTER

&&

HAWBLITZEL

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 17, 8:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Madison, Union	44 min
May 18, 11:43 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Montgomery	32 min
May 18, 1:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Warren	30 min
May 18, 5:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Shelby	38 min
May 17, 10:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Grant	26 min
May 18, 2:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Boone	44 min
May 18, 2:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Ripley	32 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kentucky, 2006 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2006

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.