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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 192, NWS Wilmington, OH

July 8, 20084 counties in Ohio

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 8, 2008, 3:51 PM EDT for 4 counties in Ohio. It was in force for 54 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: Jul 8, 2008, 3:51 PM EDT (19:51 UTC)
Expired: Jul 8, 2008, 4:45 PM EDT
In force: 54 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, OH
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Auglaize County, OH, Darke County, OH, Mercer County, OH, Shelby County, OH

The radar

The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 119 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:50 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, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 119 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: 722 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -85 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1041 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 21 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 22 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.3

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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 Jul 8, 2:01 PM EDT, 1 hour 50 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 8, 2:01 PM EDT, 1 hour 50 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 8, 5:00 AM EDT, 10 hours 51 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
500 AM EDT TUE JUL 8 2008

INZ050-058-059-066-073>075-080-KYZ089>100-OHZ026-034-035-042>046-
051>056-060>065-070>074-077>082-088-090900-
WAYNE-FAYETTE IN-UNION IN-FRANKLIN IN-RIPLEY-DEARBORN-OHIO-
SWITZERLAND-CARROLL-GALLATIN-BOONE-KENTON-CAMPBELL-OWEN-GRANT-
PENDLETON-BRACKEN-ROBERTSON-MASON-LEWIS-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-
500 AM EDT TUE JUL 8 2008

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

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY TO DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH
TONIGHT. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS MAY ACCOMPANY SOME OF THE
THUNDERSTORMS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY

THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...AND HEAVY
RAIN ON WEDNESDAY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 8, 2:46 PM EDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 8, 2:54 PM EDT, 57 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 8, 3:05 PM EDT, 46 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
Jul 8, 1:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Ross	16 min
Jul 8, 3:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Auglaize, Mercer	45 min
Jul 8, 4:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Champaign, Hardin, Logan, Shelby, Union	46 min
Jul 8, 5:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Butler	67 min
Jul 8, 5:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Delaware, Union	38 min
Jul 8, 5:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Clark, Greene, Miami, Montgomery	42 min
Jul 8, 5:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Licking	43 min
Jul 8, 6:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Clark, Fayette, Greene, Madison	59 min
Jul 8, 6:15 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILN	Clark, Darke, Miami, Montgomery	90 min
Jul 8, 6:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Fairfield, Franklin, Licking	45 min
Jul 8, 6:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Butler, Clermont, Hamilton, Warren	50 min
Jul 8, 6:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Fayette, Franklin, Madison, Pickaway	45 min
Jul 8, 7:10 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILN	Fairfield	65 min
Jul 8, 7:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Brown, Clermont, Hamilton, Highland, Warren	44 min
Jul 8, 7:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Fairfield, Hocking	53 min
Jul 8, 7:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Fayette, Highland, Pickaway, Ross	52 min
Jul 8, 6:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Owen	38 min

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.