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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 98, NWS Wilmington, OH

June 10, 2008Auglaize County, Mercer County, Ohio

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 10, 2008, 12:57 AM EDT for Auglaize County, Mercer County, Ohio. It was in force for 23 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: Jun 10, 2008, 12:57 AM EDT (04:57 UTC)
Expired: Jun 10, 2008, 1:20 AM EDT
In force: 23 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, OH
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Auglaize County, OH, Mercer County, OH

The radar

The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 136 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:56 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 136 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 736 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -22 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1829 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 103 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 72 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 Jun 9, 10:38 PM EDT, 2 hours 19 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 9, 10:38 PM EDT, 2 hours 19 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 9, 7:45 PM EDT, 5 hours 12 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
745 PM EDT MON JUN 9 2008

INZ050-058-059-066-OHZ026-034-035-042>044-051-060-102345-
WAYNE-FAYETTE IN-UNION IN-FRANKLIN IN-HARDIN-MERCER-AUGLAIZE-DARKE-
SHELBY-LOGAN-MIAMI-PREBLE-
745 PM EDT MON JUN 9 2008

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EAST CENTRAL
INDIANA...SOUTHEAST INDIANA...MIAMI VALLEY OF OHIO AND WEST CENTRAL
OHIO.

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT

THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY

THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

INZ073>075-080-KYZ089>100-OHZ045-046-052>056-061>065-070>074-077>082-
088-102345-
RIPLEY-DEARBORN-OHIO-SWITZERLAND-CARROLL-GALLATIN-BOONE-KENTON-
CAMPBELL-OWEN-GRANT-PENDLETON-BRACKEN-ROBERTSON-MASON-LEWIS-UNION OH-
DELAWARE-CHAMPAIGN-CLARK-MADISON-FRANKLIN OH-LICKING-MONTGOMERY-
GREENE-FAYETTE OH-PICKAWAY-FAIRFIELD-BUTLER-WARREN-CLINTON-ROSS-
HOCKING-HAMILTON-CLERMONT-BROWN-HIGHLAND-ADAMS-PIKE-SCIOTO-
745 PM EDT MON JUN 9 2008

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST INDIANA...NORTHEAST
KENTUCKY...NORTHERN KENTUCKY...CENTRAL OHIO...MIAMI VALLEY OF
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

THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 9, 7:02 PM EDT, 5 hours 55 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 9, 7:31 PM EDT, 5 hours 26 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 9, 8:08 PM EDT, 4 hours 49 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 9, 8:18 PM EDT, 4 hours 39 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
818 PM EDT MON JUN 09 2008

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0605 PM     TSTM WND DMG     ST. MARYS               40.54N 84.39W
06/09/2008                   AUGLAIZE           OH   EMERGENCY MNGR

            TREES AND POWERLINES DOWNED IN TOWN. SOME STRUCTURES
            DAMAGED.

0650 PM     TSTM WND DMG     RUSSELLS POINT          40.47N 83.89W
06/09/2008                   LOGAN              OH   TRAINED SPOTTER

            BACK OF GARAGE WAS BLOWN OFF.

&&

Local storm report, Jun 10, 12:54 AM EDT, 3 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
1254 AM EDT TUE JUN 10 2008

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

1245 AM     HAIL             MIDDLETOWN              39.51N 84.37W
06/10/2008  E0.75 INCH       BUTLER             OH   PUBLIC

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 10, 12:35 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Butler, Hamilton, Warren	40 min
Jun 10, 1:45 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Greene, Montgomery, Warren	45 min
Jun 10, 2:01 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Pike, Scioto	44 min
Jun 10, 2:12 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Champaign, Delaware, Logan, Madison, Union	32 min
Jun 10, 3:03 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Adams	42 min
Jun 10, 3:21 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Adams, Scioto	35 min
Jun 10, 3:36 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Ross	54 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Ohio, 2008 Every 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.