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Winter Storm Warning 4, NWS Wilmington, OH

February 3, 200910 counties in Ohio; Lewis County, Mason County, Kentucky; 4 counties in Indiana

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this winter storm warning at Feb 3, 2009, 3:43 PM EST for 10 counties in Ohio; Lewis County, Mason County, Kentucky; 4 counties in Indiana. It was in force for 10 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Feb 3, 2009, 3:43 PM EST (20:43 UTC)
Expired: Feb 4, 2009, 2:00 AM EST
In force: 10 hr
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, OH

Counties Fayette County, IN, Franklin County, IN, Union County, IN, Wayne County, IN, Lewis County, KY, Mason County, KY, Adams County, OH, Brown County, OH, Butler County, OH, Clermont County, OH, Hamilton County, OH, Highland County, OH, Pike County, OH, Preble County, OH, Scioto County, OH, Warren County, OH

The radar

The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 37 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:49 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

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 395 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 640 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 34 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 60 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 winter storm 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 winter storm warning went out at Feb 3, 1:00 PM EST, 2 hours 43 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 3, 1:00 PM EST, 2 hours 43 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Feb 3, 3:39 PM EST, 4 minutes before

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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.