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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 213, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 12, 2008, 6:57 PM EDT for Fairfield County, Licking County, Ohio. It was in force for 48 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, 6:57 PM EDT (22:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 12, 2008, 7:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Fairfield County, OH, Licking County, OH
The radar
The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 122 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:01 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 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 120 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, 5:11 PM EDT, 1 hour 46 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 12, 5:11 PM EDT, 1 hour 46 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 12, 4:15 PM EDT, 2 hours 42 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 415 PM EDT SAT JUL 12 2008 INZ050-058-059-066-073>075-080-KYZ089>096-OHZ034-035-042-043-051-060- 061-070-071-077-132015- WAYNE-FAYETTE IN-UNION IN-FRANKLIN IN-RIPLEY-DEARBORN-OHIO- SWITZERLAND-CARROLL-GALLATIN-BOONE-KENTON-CAMPBELL-OWEN-GRANT- PENDLETON-MERCER-AUGLAIZE-DARKE-SHELBY-MIAMI-PREBLE-MONTGOMERY- BUTLER-WARREN-HAMILTON- 415 PM EDT SAT JUL 12 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EAST CENTRAL INDIANA...SOUTHEAST INDIANA...NORTHERN KENTUCKY...MIAMI VALLEY OF OHIO...SOUTHWEST OHIO AND WEST CENTRAL OHIO. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT SCATTERED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE TONIGHT. SOME OF THESE STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINS...PROMPTING THE POSSIBILITY FOR LOCALIZED FLASH FLOOD WARNINGS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED. KYZ097>100-OHZ026-044>046-052>056-062>065-072>074-078>082-088-132015- BRACKEN-ROBERTSON-MASON-LEWIS-HARDIN-LOGAN-UNION OH-DELAWARE- CHAMPAIGN-CLARK-MADISON-FRANKLIN OH-LICKING-GREENE-FAYETTE OH- PICKAWAY-FAIRFIELD-CLINTON-ROSS-HOCKING-CLERMONT-BROWN-HIGHLAND- ADAMS-PIKE-SCIOTO- 415 PM EDT SAT JUL 12 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST KENTUCKY...NORTHERN KENTUCKY...CENTRAL OHIO...MIAMI VALLEY OF OHIO...SOUTH CENTRAL OHIO...SOUTHWEST OHIO AND WEST CENTRAL OHIO. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jul 12, 6:31 PM EDT, 26 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
631 PM EDT SAT JUL 12 2008
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0621 PM HAIL CARROLL 39.80N 82.70W
07/12/2008 E0.88 INCH FAIRFIELD OH PUBLIC
&&Special weather statement, Jul 12, 6:51 PM EDT, 6 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 651 PM EDT SAT JUL 12 2008 OHZ054-055-122315- MADISON OH-FRANKLIN OH- 651 PM EDT SAT JUL 12 2008 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT SOUTHWESTERN FRANKLIN AND CENTRAL MADISON COUNTIES THROUGH 715 PM EDT... AT 647 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM LOCATED NEAR MADISON LAKE...MOVING EAST AT 34 MPH. THIS STORM WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING SMALL HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL BE AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE...BIG PLAIN...LILLY CHAPEL...HARRISBURG...URBANCREST AND GROVE CITY. 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.
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, 10:59 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Grant, Owen | 31 min |
Nearby
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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.