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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 193, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 8, 2008, 4:29 PM EDT for 5 counties in Ohio. It was in force for 46 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, 4:29 PM EDT (20:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 8, 2008, 5:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Champaign County, OH, Hardin County, OH, Logan County, OH, Shelby County, OH, Union County, OH
The radar
The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:29 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 104 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.
- 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
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, 2 hours 28 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 8, 2:01 PM EDT, 2 hours 28 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 411 PM EDT TUE JUL 8 2008 OHZ026-034-035-042>046-051>056-092015- HARDIN-MERCER-AUGLAIZE-DARKE-SHELBY-LOGAN-UNION OH-DELAWARE-MIAMI- CHAMPAIGN-CLARK-MADISON-FRANKLIN OH-LICKING- 411 PM EDT TUE JUL 8 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL OHIO...MIAMI VALLEY OF OHIO AND WEST CENTRAL OHIO. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE ACROSS THE AREA THIS EVENING. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS MAY ACCOMPANY SOME OF THESE STORMS. .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 REQUIRED. INZ050-058-059-066-073>075-080-KYZ089>100-OHZ060>065-070>074-077>082- 088-092015- WAYNE-FAYETTE IN-UNION IN-FRANKLIN IN-RIPLEY-DEARBORN-OHIO- SWITZERLAND-CARROLL-GALLATIN-BOONE-KENTON-CAMPBELL-OWEN-GRANT- PENDLETON-BRACKEN-ROBERTSON-MASON-LEWIS-PREBLE-MONTGOMERY-GREENE- FAYETTE OH-PICKAWAY-FAIRFIELD-BUTLER-WARREN-CLINTON-ROSS-HOCKING- HAMILTON-CLERMONT-BROWN-HIGHLAND-ADAMS-PIKE-SCIOTO- 411 PM 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 AND SOUTHWEST OHIO. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY TO DEVELOP 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 REQUIRED.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jul 8, 2:46 PM EDT, 1 hour 43 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Wilmington, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| 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, 3:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Auglaize, Darke, Mercer, Shelby | 54 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, 2008Every 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.