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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 34, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 28, 2008, 8:32 PM EDT for Licking County, Ohio. It was in force for 13 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
- Apr 28, 2008, 8:32 PM EDT (00:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 28, 2008, 8:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 13 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Licking County, OH
The radar
The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 137 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:32 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 205 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
- 8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -16 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 676 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 65 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -32 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 Apr 28, 7:28 PM EDT, 1 hour 4 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 28, 7:28 PM EDT, 1 hour 4 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 528 PM EDT MON APR 28 2008 KYZ092-093-096>099-OHZ026-034-035-042>045-051>054-060>063-070>072- 077>080-292130- KENTON-CAMPBELL-PENDLETON-BRACKEN-ROBERTSON-MASON-HARDIN-MERCER- AUGLAIZE-DARKE-SHELBY-LOGAN-UNION OH-MIAMI-CHAMPAIGN-CLARK-MADISON- PREBLE-MONTGOMERY-GREENE-FAYETTE OH-BUTLER-WARREN-CLINTON-HAMILTON- CLERMONT-BROWN-HIGHLAND- 528 PM EDT MON APR 28 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 AN UPPER LEVEL TROUGH WILL MOVE ACROSS THE OHIO VALLEY THIS EVENING. THIS SYSTEM WILL RESULT IN RAIN SHOWERS AND SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS MAINLY LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING...AND POSSIBLY EXTENDING INTO THE EARLY OVERNIGHT PERIOD. THE MAIN THREAT WITH THIS ACTIVITY WILL BE THE POSSIBILITY OF SMALL HAIL...THOUGH A FEW STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE WITH HAIL UP TO PENNY SIZE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY TEMPERATURES ARE FORECAST TO DROP INTO THE LOWER TO MIDDLE 30S TUESDAY NIGHT. THIS MAY RESULT IN AREAS OF FROST...ESPECIALLY ALONG AND NORTH OF THE OHIO RIVER. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. INZ050-058-059-066-073>075-080-KYZ089>091-094-095-100-OHZ046-055-056- 064-065-073-074-081-082-088-292130- WAYNE-FAYETTE IN-UNION IN-FRANKLIN IN-RIPLEY-DEARBORN-OHIO- SWITZERLAND-CARROLL-GALLATIN-BOONE-OWEN-GRANT-LEWIS-DELAWARE- FRANKLIN OH-LICKING-PICKAWAY-FAIRFIELD-ROSS-HOCKING-ADAMS-PIKE- SCIOTO- 528 PM EDT MON APR 28 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EAST CENTRAL INDIANA...SOUTHEAST INDIANA...NORTHEAST KENTUCKY...NORTHERN KENTUCKY...CENTRAL OHIO AND SOUTH CENTRAL OHIO. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT AN UPPER LEVEL TROUGH WILL SETTLE ACROSS THE OHIO VALLEY THIS EVENING. THIS SYSTEM WILL RESULT IN RAIN SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS MAINLY LATE THIS AFTERNOON INTO THE EARLY EVENING HOURS. THE MAIN THREAT WITH THIS ACTIVITY WILL BE THE POSSIBILITY OF SMALL HAIL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY TEMPERATURES ARE FORECAST TO DROP INTO THE LOWER TO MIDDLE 30S TUESDAY NIGHT. THIS MAY RESULT IN AREAS OF FROST...ESPECIALLY ALONG AND NORTH OF THE OHIO RIVER. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Apr 28, 6:05 PM EDT, 2 hours 27 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Wilmington, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 29, 3:43 AM EDT | Freeze Watch | ILN | Adams, Auglaize, Brown, Butler, Champaign, Clark and 26 more | 13 hr |
| Apr 29, 3:10 PM EDT | Frost Advisory | ILN | Adams, Auglaize, Brown, Butler, Champaign, Clark and 26 more | 13 hr |
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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.