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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 67, NWS Wilmington, OH

June 1, 2009Fairfield County, Hocking County, Ohio

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 1, 2009, 11:16 PM EDT for Fairfield County, Hocking 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 1, 2009, 11:16 PM EDT (03:16 UTC)
Expired: Jun 1, 2009, 11:39 PM EDT
In force: 23 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, OH
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Fairfield County, OH, Hocking County, OH

The radar

The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:16 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 00:00Z, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 109 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: 304 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -73 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2023 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 69 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 173 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 3.3

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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 Jun 1, 10:45 PM EDT, 31 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 1, 10:45 PM EDT, 31 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 1, 11:14 PM EDT, 2 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 1, 7:22 PM EDT, 3 hours 54 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
722 PM EDT MON JUN 01 2009

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

0719 PM     HAIL             2 N MENDON              40.70N 84.52W
06/01/2009  E0.25 INCH       MERCER             OH   FIRE DEPT/RESCUE

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HATZOS

Local storm report, Jun 1, 7:58 PM EDT, 3 hours 18 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 1, 10:28 PM EDT, 48 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 1, 10:45 PM EDT, 31 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 1, 11:01 PM EDT, 15 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 1, 11:02 PM EDT, 14 minutes before

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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 1, 10:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Fairfield, Franklin, Licking	48 min
Jun 2, 3:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Clark, Greene, Montgomery	45 min
Jun 2, 3:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Clark, Greene, Montgomery	41 min
Jun 2, 3:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Clark, Greene, Madison	39 min
Jun 2, 3:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Brown	49 min
Jun 2, 4:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Fairfield	53 min
Jun 2, 4:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Clark, Franklin, Madison, Pickaway	37 min
Jun 2, 4:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Adams, Scioto	36 min
Jun 2, 4:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Fayette, Franklin, Madison, Pickaway	40 min
Jun 2, 4:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Preble	37 min
Jun 2, 5:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Licking	51 min
Jun 2, 5:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Clinton, Highland	43 min
Jun 2, 5:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Fairfield, Hocking, Pickaway	40 min
Jun 2, 5:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Pike, Ross	49 min
Jun 2, 5:27 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	ILN	Montgomery, Preble	33 min
Jun 2, 5:36 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	ILN	Fairfield, Hocking, Pickaway	24 min
Jun 2, 5:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Hocking, Ross	43 min
Jun 2, 5:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Butler, Montgomery, Preble, Warren	38 min
Jun 2, 5:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Fairfield, Hocking	49 min
Jun 2, 6:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Hocking	28 min
Jun 2, 6:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Clinton, Greene, Montgomery, Warren	42 min
Jun 2, 6:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Clinton	48 min
Jun 2, 7:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Warren	41 min
Jun 2, 7:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Clinton, Fayette, Highland	41 min
Jun 2, 7:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Brown, Clermont, Clinton, Warren	35 min
Jun 2, 7:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Fayette, Ross	40 min
Jun 2, 2:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Carroll, Gallatin	39 min
Jun 2, 3:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Campbell, Grant, Kenton, Pendleton	30 min
Jun 2, 3:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Boone, Campbell, Kenton	26 min
Jun 2, 3:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Carroll, Gallatin, Owen	30 min
Jun 2, 4:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Bracken, Mason, Robertson	51 min
Jun 2, 5:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Lewis, Mason	48 min
Jun 2, 4:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Wayne	49 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Ohio, 2009 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2009

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.