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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 34, NWS Wilmington, OH

April 28, 2008Licking County, Ohio

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Pittsburgh, PA at 00:00Z on 2008-04-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 8 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Pittsburgh, PA at 00:00Z on 2008-04-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -32 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
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

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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, Apr 28, 5:28 PM EDT, 3 hours 4 minutes before
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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The office that day

Everything else NWS Wilmington, OH issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 29, 3:43 AM EDTFreeze WatchILNAdams, Auglaize, Brown, Butler, Champaign, Clark and 26 more13 hr
Apr 29, 3:10 PM EDTFrost AdvisoryILNAdams, Auglaize, Brown, Butler, Champaign, Clark and 26 more13 hr

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.