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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 185, NWS Wilmington, OH

June 28, 20084 counties in Ohio

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 28, 2008, 4:31 PM EDT for 4 counties in Ohio. It was in force for 44 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: Jun 28, 2008, 4:31 PM EDT (20:31 UTC)
Expired: Jun 28, 2008, 5:15 PM EDT
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, OH
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Fayette County, OH, Franklin County, OH, Madison County, OH, Pickaway County, OH

The radar

The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:30 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 28, 12:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 62 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: 505 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -35 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 513 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 50 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 107 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 Jun 28, 4:09 PM EDT, 22 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 28, 4:09 PM EDT, 22 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 28, 1:47 PM EDT, 2 hours 44 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
147 PM EDT SAT JUN 28 2008

INZ050-058-059-066-073>075-080-KYZ091>093-OHZ026-034-035-042>046-
051>056-060>065-070>074-077>082-088-291800-
WAYNE-FAYETTE IN-UNION IN-FRANKLIN IN-RIPLEY-DEARBORN-OHIO-
SWITZERLAND-BOONE-KENTON-CAMPBELL-HARDIN-MERCER-AUGLAIZE-DARKE-
SHELBY-LOGAN-UNION OH-DELAWARE-MIAMI-CHAMPAIGN-CLARK-MADISON-
FRANKLIN OH-LICKING-PREBLE-MONTGOMERY-GREENE-FAYETTE OH-PICKAWAY-
FAIRFIELD-BUTLER-WARREN-CLINTON-ROSS-HOCKING-HAMILTON-CLERMONT-BROWN-
HIGHLAND-ADAMS-PIKE-SCIOTO-
147 PM EDT SAT JUN 28 2008

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 629 IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT THIS
EVENING...

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EAST CENTRAL
INDIANA...SOUTHEAST INDIANA...NORTHERN KENTUCKY...CENTRAL
OHIO...MIAMI VALLEY OF OHIO...SOUTH CENTRAL OHIO...SOUTHWEST OHIO
AND WEST CENTRAL OHIO.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT

PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE
INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS.

   SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH.

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.
THE PRIMARY SEVERE WEATHER THREATS WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING
WINDS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL LIKELY BE NEEDED.

KYZ089-090-094>100-291800-
CARROLL-GALLATIN-OWEN-GRANT-PENDLETON-BRACKEN-ROBERTSON-MASON-LEWIS-
147 PM EDT SAT JUN 28 2008

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 630 IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM EDT THIS
EVENING...

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST KENTUCKY AND
NORTHERN KENTUCKY.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT

PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE
INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS.

   SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH.

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.
THE PRIMARY SEVERE WEATHER THREATS WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING
WINDS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL LIKELY BE NEEDED.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 28, 3:37 PM EDT, 54 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
337 PM EDT SAT JUN 28 2008

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

0320 PM     TSTM WND GST     ASHLEY                  40.41N 82.95W
06/28/2008  E60.00 MPH       DELAWARE           OH   TRAINED SPOTTER

            BLOWING SHINGLES OFF ROOFS AND YARD FURNITURE AROUND THE
            YARD.

&&

MGALLAGHER

Local storm report, Jun 28, 3:43 PM EDT, 48 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
343 PM EDT SAT JUN 28 2008

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

0324 PM     HAIL             SPRINGBORO              39.56N 84.24W
06/28/2008  E1.00 INCH       WARREN             OH   PUBLIC

&&

HATZOS

Local storm report, Jun 28, 3:49 PM EDT, 42 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
349 PM EDT SAT JUN 28 2008

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

0223 PM     TSTM WND DMG     LUDLOW FALLS            40.00N 84.34W
06/28/2008                   MIAMI              OH   PUBLIC

            TREES DOWN.

&&

MGALLAGHER

Special weather statement, Jun 28, 4:14 PM EDT, 17 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 28, 4:30 PM EDT, 1 minute before

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Local storm report, Jun 28, 4:31 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 28, 1:33 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILN	Auglaize, Hardin	87 min
Jun 28, 1:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Hardin	19 min
Jun 28, 2:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Champaign, Darke, Logan, Miami, Shelby	40 min
Jun 28, 2:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Champaign, Clark, Delaware, Logan, Madison, Miami and 1 more	56 min
Jun 28, 3:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Delaware, Franklin, Madison, Union	47 min
Jun 28, 3:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Butler, Greene, Montgomery, Warren	45 min
Jun 28, 3:17 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILN	Champaign, Clark, Delaware, Madison, Union	118 min
Jun 28, 3:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Clark, Franklin, Madison	61 min
Jun 28, 3:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Licking	54 min
Jun 28, 3:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Clark, Clinton, Greene, Warren	42 min
Jun 28, 3:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Butler, Hamilton	50 min
Jun 28, 3:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Greene, Warren	47 min
Jun 28, 4:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Warren	39 min
Jun 28, 4:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Clermont, Hamilton	36 min
Jun 28, 4:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Brown, Clermont, Clinton, Fayette, Highland	44 min
Jun 28, 4:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Fairfield	63 min
Jun 28, 6:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Pike, Ross	23 min
Jun 28, 3:33 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILN	Dearborn, Ripley	3 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Ohio, 2008 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2008

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.