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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 193, NWS Wilmington, OH

August 28, 2009Fairfield County, Ohio

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 28, 2009, 2:34 PM EDT for Fairfield County, Ohio. It was in force for 26 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 28, 2009, 2:34 PM EDT (18:34 UTC)
Expired
Aug 28, 2009, 3:00 PM EDT
In force
26 min
Issued by
NWS Wilmington, OH
Area
Storm-based polygon

County Fairfield County, OH

The radar

The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:35 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 6.6 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 2009-08-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1124 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, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 2009-08-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 15 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
1124 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-27 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
775 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
15 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
57 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
1.3

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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 Aug 28, 1:45 PM EDT, 49 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 28, 1:45 PM EDT, 49 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
145 PM EDT FRI AUG 28 2009

.SYNOPSIS...
A STATIONARY FRONT OVER SOUTHERN OHIO AND INDIANA WILL MOVE BACK
TO THE NORTH AS A WARM FRONT TODAY. THE THREAT FOR THUNDERSTORMS
WILL INCREASE TONIGHT AS LOW PRESSURE TRACKS INTO THE LOWER GREAT
LAKES AND AN ASSOCIATED COLD FRONT SWEEPS THROUGH THE REGION. HIGH
PRESSURE WILL BUILD IN BEHIND THE FRONT FOR THE LATTER HALF OF THE
WEEKEND AND FIRST OF NEXT WEEK...OFFERING DRIER CONDITIONS AND
MUCH COOLER AIR.

&&

.NEAR TERM /UNTIL 6 PM THIS EVENING/...
THE LATEST RUC ANALYSIS INDICATES A WEAK H5 SHOFT WAVE ADVECTING
EWD ACROSS CNTRL IL WITH A CLOSED LOW LOCATED ACROSS THE FL
PANHANDLE. THE FLOW ALOFT REMAINS WEAK...WITH THE LACK OF ANY JET
AXIS. AT H7...A DRY POCKET OF AIR IS ADVECTING NEWD FROM CNTRL KY
INTO THE CWA...CORRELATING WELL WITH CLEARING IN BTW THE TROPICAL
MOISTURE ADVECTING NWD IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE UPPER LOW AND
MOISTURE ASSOCD WITH A 1014 MB SFC LOW IN SRN IL. A SFC FRNTL
BNDRY WHICH WAS STNRY ACROSS THE CWA FOR THE PAST FEW DAYS IS NOW
ADVECTING NWD AS A WRM FRNT. AT 14Z...THE FRONT EXTENDED FROM THE
LOW EWD ACROSS SRN IND AND ALONG A LINE JUST SOUTH OF THE
INTERSTATE 70 CORRIDOR. THE CWA IS IN A RESPITE FROM CONVECTION AT
THE MOMENT...WITH SCTD COVERAGE ADVECTING NWD ACROSS ERN KY AND A
CLUSTER OF SHOWERS AND STORMS AHEAD OF THE SHT WV ALONG THE IL/IND
BORDER. TEMPS THIS MORNING RANGED FROM THE MID TO UPPER 70S ACROSS
THE CWA.

THIS AFTERNOON...THE WARM FRONT WILL CONTINUE TO ADVECT NWD INTO
NRN OHIO...WITH THE CWA IN THE WARM SECTOR THIS AFTN. IN THE SHORT
TERM...THE MODELS DO NOT SEEM TO BE ACCOUNTING FOR THE WARMER TDS IN
THE U60S TO L70S. THUS...THE FCST WEAK INSTBY APPEARS TO BE
UNDERDONE FOR THIS AFTN. THE 12Z ILN SOUNDING INDICATES LI OF
-6.8...PWAT OF 1.55...WITH A MODIFIED FCST CAPE OF APPROX 2500
J/KG. THIS MOIST ENVIRONMENT WOULD BE FAVORABLE FOR THE
DEVELOPMENT OF SCTD CONVECTION THIS AFTN...WITH A FEW OF THE
STORMS POSSIBLY BECOMING STRONG TO SEVERE. WITH THE FRNTL BNDRY
LIFTING NWD...THERE IS A LACK OF FORCING WITH WEAK FCST SHEAR ALSO
BEING A LIMITING FACTOR. WITH THE CWA REMAINING IN A FAIRLY WEAK
FLOW ALOFT...SOME LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE.
WITH DEVELOPMENT...WILL NEED TO MONITOR PRECIP FOR THE POSSIBILITY
OF LOCALIZED FLOODING. FORTUNATELY...ASIDE FROM PRECIP AROUND 2
INCHES ACROSS NRN DELAWARE COUNTY THIS MORNING...IT HAS BEEN
RELATIVELY DRY AND FFG IS FAIRLY HIGH.

FOR TEMPS THIS AFTN...WITH WAA AND SRLY FLOW BEHIND THE WRM
FRNT...ALONG WITH CLEARING...TEMPS WILL WARM UP NICELY INTO THE
MID TO UPPER 80S ACROSS THE TRI-STATE AND INTO THE MIAMI VALLEY.
OTHERWISE...CLOUD COVERAGE WILL LIMIT HIGHS TO THE LOWER 80S.

&&

.SHORT TERM /6 PM THIS EVENING THROUGH SUNDAY/...
WITH UPPER LEVEL ENERGY CARVING OUT A LOW OVER THE WESTERN GREAT
LAKES TNGT...SFC WAVE TO TRACK THRU THE SRN GREAT LAKES WITH SWD
TRAILING COLD FRONT PUSHING THRU THE OHIO VALLEY. NUMERICAL MODEL
SOLN/S TRENDING SLOWER WITH THIS FRONTAL PASSAGE. WL TREND FCST MORE
IN LINE WITH SLOWER GFS/ECMWF SOLN/S. WL INCREASE THUNDERSTORM
POPS TO LKLY CATEGORY OVERNIGHT. HAVE TRENDED OVERNIGHT LOWS A LTL
ABOVE MAV GUID.

BASED ON SLOWER FRONTAL PASSAGE...THE FRONT WL NEARLY BISECT THE
FA AT 12Z SATURDAY. THEREFORE HAVE LINGERED CHC POPS SAT MORNING.
H5 LOW TO DRIFT ACRS THE GREAT LAKES SAT AND INTO ERN CANADA SUNDAY...
WITH SFC HIGH PRESSURE NOSING INTO THE LOWER OHIO VALLEY. LOW
LEVEL LAPSE RATES STEEPEN TO ALLOW AN INCREASE IN CLOUDS BUT HAVE
OPTED FOR A DRY AFTN ON SAT AND SUNDAY...ALTHOUGH A SHOWER IS NOT OUT
OF THE QUESTION MAINLY ACRS THE N CLOSER TO THE UPR LOW ON BOTH AFTN/S.
HAVE STAYED CLOSE TO MAV GUID FOR HIGHS SAT AND SUNDAY AND TRENDED
SAT NIGHTS LOWS TOWARD COOLER MAV.

&&

.LONG TERM /SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY/...
HIGH PRESSURE WILL BUILD INTO THE AREA THROUGH THE MIDDLE OF NEXT WEEK
RESULTING IN DRY CONDITIONS.

TEMPERATURES WILL BE BELOW NORMAL THROUGH THE PERIOD WITH THE
COOLEST READINGS ON MONDAY WHEN AN UPPER TROUGH WILL BE SWINGING
THROUGH THE GREAT LAKES.

&&

.AVIATION /18Z FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY/...
A WARM FRONT HAS LIFTED NORTH OF THE TERMINALS WITH WINDS BECOMING
SRLY. SCTD CONVECTION WILL DEVELOP THIS AFTN ACROSS THE
TERMINALS. TEMPO GROUPS ARE FCST THIS AFTN FOR TSRA WITH IFR
VSBYS. DIURNAL CONVECTION WILL DIMINISH SOMEWHAT BEFORE A CLUSTER
OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MOVE INTO THE AREA OVERNIGHT. VCSH
WITH CB GROUPS IS FORECAST ACROSS THE TERMINALS AFTER 01Z. IN A
MOIST SRLY FLOW AHEAD OF A COLD FRONT...MVFR BR OR HZ WILL DEVELOP
OVERNIGHT ACROSS THE TERMINALS. THE COLD FRONT WILL CROSS THE
TERMINALS BY 12Z SAT...WITH CONVECTION DIMINISHING IN ITS WAKE SAT
MORNING. WITH THE PASSAGE OF THE FRONT A PD OF IFR CIGS AND VSBYS WILL
BE POSSIBLE DURING THE EARLY MORNING HRS ACROSS THE
TERMINALS...LIFTING TO MVFR DURING THE LATE MORNING HRS BEFORE CLOUD
COVERAGE DIMINISHES BEHIND THE FRONT.

OUTLOOK...NO SIGNIFICANT WEATHER EXPECTED.

&&

.ILN WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
OH...NONE.
KY...NONE.
IN...NONE.

&&

SYNOPSIS...AR
NEAR TERM...WOODRUM
SHORT TERM...AR
LONG TERM...
AVIATION...WOODRUM
Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 28, 11:18 AM EDT, 3 hours 16 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
1118 AM EDT FRI AUG 28 2009

INZ050-058-059-066-073>075-080-KYZ089>100-OHZ026-034-035-042>046-
051>056-060>065-070>074-077>082-088-290930-
WAYNE-FAYETTE IN-UNION IN-FRANKLIN IN-RIPLEY-DEARBORN-OHIO-
SWITZERLAND-CARROLL-GALLATIN-BOONE-KENTON-CAMPBELL-OWEN-GRANT-
PENDLETON-BRACKEN-ROBERTSON-MASON-LEWIS-HARDIN-MERCER-AUGLAIZE-DARKE-
SHELBY-LOGAN-UNION OH-DELAWARE-MIAMI-CHAMPAIGN-CLARK-MADISON-
FRANKLIN OH-LICKING-PREBLE-MONTGOMERY-GREENE-FAYETTE OH-PICKAWAY-
FAIRFIELD-BUTLER-WARREN-CLINTON-ROSS-HOCKING-HAMILTON-CLERMONT-BROWN-
HIGHLAND-ADAMS-PIKE-SCIOTO-
1118 AM EDT FRI AUG 28 2009

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EAST CENTRAL
INDIANA...SOUTHEAST INDIANA...NORTHEAST KENTUCKY...NORTHERN
KENTUCKY...CENTRAL OHIO...MIAMI VALLEY OF OHIO...SOUTH CENTRAL
OHIO...SOUTHWEST OHIO AND WEST CENTRAL OHIO.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT.

SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP AHEAD OF A COLD FRONT THIS
AFTERNOON. A FEW OF THE STORMS MAY BECOME STRONG WITH GUSTY WINDS
POSSIBLE. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE WITH SLOW
MOVING STORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND OVERNIGHT.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY.

THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

WOODRUM

In the hours before

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 28, 2:12 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryILNFranklin2 hr
Aug 28, 3:45 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningILNFranklin92 min
Aug 28, 4:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNHardin46 min
Aug 28, 4:42 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryILNHardin3 hr
Aug 28, 4:52 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryILNClermont2 hr
Aug 28, 5:01 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryILNShelby3 hr
Aug 28, 5:23 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNHardin, Union22 min
Aug 28, 5:38 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryILNChampaign, Hardin, Logan, Union3 hr
Aug 28, 6:04 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNDelaware, Union41 min
Aug 28, 7:32 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNDelaware28 min
Aug 28, 7:51 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryILNDelaware, Union114 min

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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.