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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 255, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 5, 2008, 1:11 AM EDT for 6 counties in Ohio. It was in force for 49 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
- Aug 5, 2008, 1:11 AM EDT (05:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 5, 2008, 2:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Auglaize County, OH, Champaign County, OH, Darke County, OH, Hardin County, OH, Logan County, OH, Shelby County, OH
The radar
The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 4, 10:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 106 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
- 128 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -227 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1461 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 94 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 188 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 Aug 5, 12:46 AM EDT, 25 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 5, 12:46 AM EDT, 25 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 1057 PM EDT MON AUG 4 2008 INZ050-058-059-066-073>075-080-KYZ089>100-OHZ056-065-070>074-077>082- 088-060300- WAYNE-FAYETTE IN-UNION IN-FRANKLIN IN-RIPLEY-DEARBORN-OHIO- SWITZERLAND-CARROLL-GALLATIN-BOONE-KENTON-CAMPBELL-OWEN-GRANT- PENDLETON-BRACKEN-ROBERTSON-MASON-LEWIS-LICKING-FAIRFIELD-BUTLER- WARREN-CLINTON-ROSS-HOCKING-HAMILTON-CLERMONT-BROWN-HIGHLAND-ADAMS- PIKE-SCIOTO- 1057 PM EDT MON AUG 4 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EAST CENTRAL INDIANA...SOUTHEAST INDIANA...NORTHEAST KENTUCKY...NORTHERN KENTUCKY...CENTRAL OHIO...SOUTH CENTRAL OHIO AND SOUTHWEST OHIO. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE TUESDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING AS A COLD FRONT APPROACHES THE REGION FROM THE WEST. THE PRIMARY SEVERE WEATHER THREATS WILL BE DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. OHZ026-034-035-042>046-051>055-060>064-060300- HARDIN-MERCER-AUGLAIZE-DARKE-SHELBY-LOGAN-UNION OH-DELAWARE-MIAMI- CHAMPAIGN-CLARK-MADISON-FRANKLIN OH-PREBLE-MONTGOMERY-GREENE- FAYETTE OH-PICKAWAY- 1057 PM EDT MON AUG 4 2008 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 808 IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 AM EDT TUESDAY... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL OHIO...MIAMI VALLEY OF OHIO AND WEST CENTRAL OHIO. .DAY ONE...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. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE TUESDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING AS A COLD FRONT APPROACHES THE REGION FROM THE WEST. THE PRIMARY SEVERE WEATHER THREATS WILL BE DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL BE REQUIRED OVERNIGHT. RYAN
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 4, 11:24 PM EDT, 1 hour 47 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 1124 PM EDT MON AUG 4 2008 OHZ064-073-074-050400- ROSS OH-HOCKING OH-PICKAWAY OH- 1124 PM EDT MON AUG 4 2008 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT SOUTHEASTERN PICKAWAY... SOUTHWESTERN HOCKING AND EASTERN ROSS COUNTIES THROUGH MIDNIGHT EDT... AT 1122 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM LOCATED NEAR HALLSVILLE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 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... LAURELVILLE...ADELPHI...MOORESVILLE AND LONDONDERRY.
Local storm report, Aug 4, 11:49 PM EDT, 1 hour 22 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Wilmington, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 4, 11:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Ross | 35 min |
| Aug 5, 12:25 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Auglaize, Darke, Mercer, Shelby | 50 min |
| Aug 5, 12:42 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Darke, Preble | 48 min |
| Aug 5, 1:52 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Champaign, Clark, Delaware, Franklin, Hardin, Logan and 2 more | 38 min |
| Aug 5, 2:30 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Delaware, Fairfield, Franklin, Licking, Madison, Pickaway and 1 more | 45 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.