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Special Weather Statement, NWS Wilmington, OH

March 21, 2011Adams County, Ohio

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this special weather statement at Mar 21, 2011, 7:55 PM EDT for Adams County, Ohio. It was in force for 35 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Mar 21, 2011, 7:55 PM EDT (23:55 UTC)
Expired: Mar 21, 2011, 8:30 PM EDT
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, OH

County Adams County, OH

The radar

The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:58 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 96 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: 8 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -199 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1258 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 496 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 479 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Mar 21, 7:52 PM EDT, 3 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 21, 7:52 PM EDT, 3 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 21, 5:06 AM EDT, 14 hours 49 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
506 AM EDT MON MAR 21 2011

INZ075-080-KYZ089>100-OHZ063>065-071>074-077>082-088-220915-
OHIO-SWITZERLAND-CARROLL-GALLATIN-BOONE-KENTON-CAMPBELL-OWEN-GRANT-
PENDLETON-BRACKEN-ROBERTSON-MASON-LEWIS-FAYETTE OH-PICKAWAY-
FAIRFIELD-WARREN-CLINTON-ROSS-HOCKING-HAMILTON-CLERMONT-BROWN-
HIGHLAND-ADAMS-PIKE-SCIOTO-
506 AM EDT MON MAR 21 2011

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST INDIANA...NORTHEAST
KENTUCKY...NORTHERN KENTUCKY...CENTRAL OHIO...SOUTH CENTRAL OHIO
AND SOUTHWEST OHIO.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT.

A FRONTAL BOUNDARY WILL PUSH SOUTH INTO THE AREA THROUGH THIS
AFTERNOON...RESULTING IN A CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. A
FEW OF THE THUNDERSTORMS MAY APPROACH SEVERE LIMITS LATER THIS
AFTERNOON...ESPECIALLY TO THE SOUTHEAST OF INTERSTATE 71. THE
PRIMARY SEVERE THREAT WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND GUSTS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY.

A FRONTAL BOUNDARY WILL REMAIN DRAPED ACROSS THE AREA THROUGH
MID WEEK. A LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM MOVING EAST ALONG THE BOUNDARY
WILL RESULT IN THE POSSIBILITY OF STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ON
WEDNESDAY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

INZ050-058-059-066-073-074-OHZ026-034-035-042>046-051>056-060>062-
070-220915-
WAYNE-FAYETTE IN-UNION IN-FRANKLIN IN-RIPLEY-DEARBORN-HARDIN-MERCER-
AUGLAIZE-DARKE-SHELBY-LOGAN-UNION OH-DELAWARE-MIAMI-CHAMPAIGN-CLARK-
MADISON-FRANKLIN OH-LICKING-PREBLE-MONTGOMERY-GREENE-BUTLER-
506 AM EDT MON MAR 21 2011

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

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT.

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY.

A FRONTAL BOUNDARY WILL REMAIN DRAPED ACROSS THE AREA THROUGH
MID WEEK. A LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM MOVING EAST ALONG THE BOUNDARY
WILL RESULT IN THE POSSIBILITY OF STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ON
WEDNESDAY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Mar 21, 6:32 PM EDT, 1 hour 23 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
632 PM EDT MON MAR 21 2011

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

0628 PM     HAIL             GOSHEN                  39.23N 84.16W
03/21/2011  E0.50 INCH       CLERMONT           OH   TRAINED SPOTTER

            LASTED ABOUT 2 TO 3 MINUTES.

&&

Local storm report, Mar 21, 6:34 PM EDT, 1 hour 21 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
634 PM EDT MON MAR 21 2011

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

0628 PM     HEAVY RAIN       PORTSMOUTH              38.76N 82.95W
03/21/2011  M0.60 INCH       SCIOTO             OH   EMERGENCY MNGR

            FELL IN ABOUT 10 MINUTES

&&

JOHNF

Local storm report, Mar 21, 7:05 PM EDT, 50 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Mar 21, 7:47 PM EDT, 8 minutes before

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Local storm report, Mar 21, 7:52 PM EDT, 3 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Mar 21, 7:55 PM EDT, 0 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
Mar 21, 9:42 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Fairfield	48 min
Mar 21, 2:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Greene	29 min
Mar 21, 3:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Clinton, Warren	63 min
Mar 21, 4:35 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Highland	55 min
Mar 21, 5:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Adams, Highland, Pike, Scioto	40 min
Mar 21, 5:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Adams, Scioto	37 min
Mar 21, 5:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Scioto	31 min
Mar 21, 6:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Brown	61 min
Mar 21, 6:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Adams, Brown, Clermont, Highland	38 min
Mar 21, 7:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Adams	28 min

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Special Weather Statements in Ohio, 2011 Every special weather statement in 2011

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.