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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 33, NWS Wilmington, OH

May 3, 20105 counties in Ohio

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 3, 2010, 7:34 PM EDT for 5 counties in Ohio. It was in force for 41 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
May 3, 2010, 7:34 PM EDT (23:34 UTC)
Expired
May 3, 2010, 8:15 PM EDT
In force
41 min
Issued by
NWS Wilmington, OH
Area
Storm-based polygon

Counties Auglaize County, OH, Darke County, OH, Mercer County, OH, Miami County, OH, Shelby County, OH

The radar

The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:37 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 359 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, Lincoln, IL at 12:00Z on 2010-05-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 13 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, Lincoln, IL at 12:00Z on 2010-05-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 72 square meters per square second.1939587897117136156Sfc1 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
13 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-135 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1437 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
72 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 May 2, 7:51 PM EDT, 23 hours 43 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 2, 7:51 PM EDT, 23 hours 43 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 2, 9:45 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryILNHighland, Hocking, Ross3 hr
May 3, 7:55 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNAuglaize, Champaign, Darke, Hardin, Logan, Miami and 3 more50 min
May 2, 9:11 PM EDTAreal Flood WarningILNCarroll, Gallatin, Grant, Owen, Pendleton3 hr
May 2, 11:28 PM EDTAreal Flood WarningILNCarroll, Owen5 days

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Ohio, 2010Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2010

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.