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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 211, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 12, 2008, 10:59 AM EDT for Grant County, Owen County, Kentucky. It was in force for 31 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 12, 2008, 10:59 AM EDT (14:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 12, 2008, 11:30 AM EDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Grant County, KY, Owen County, KY
The radar
The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 121 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:59 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, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 123 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
- 92 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -176 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1640 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 23 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 4 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 12, 10:01 AM EDT, 58 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 12, 10:01 AM EDT, 58 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Jul 12, 10:44 AM EDT, 15 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 1044 AM EDT SAT JUL 12 2008 KYZ094-095-121515- GRANT KY-OWEN KY- 1044 AM EDT SAT JUL 12 2008 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT EASTERN OWEN AND GRANT COUNTIES THROUGH 1115 AM EDT... AT 1036 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM LOCATED NEAR OWENTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. THIS STORM WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING SMALL HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL BE AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE... NEEDMORE...HOLBROOK...TWIN BRIDGES...KEEFER...LAWRENCEVILLE... STEWARTSVILLE...CHERRY GROVE...CORDOVA...CAMP NORTHWARD...DRY RIDGE...WILLIAMSTOWN AND SHERMAN. FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING WILL ALSO OCCUR. MOVE INDOORS IMMEDIATELY LIGHTNING IS ONE OF NATURES LEADING KILLERS. REMEMBER... IF YOU CAN HEAR THUNDER...YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. THIS STORM WILL ALSO BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN...WHICH MAY FLOOD ROADS...DITCHES AND LOW LYING AREAS. DO NOT DRIVE INTO PLACES WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD AND AVOID FLOOD PRONE AREAS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wilmington, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 12, 6:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Fairfield | 55 min |
| Jul 12, 6:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Fairfield, Licking | 48 min |
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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.