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Special Weather Statement, NWS Wilmington, OH

August 21, 2011Licking County, Ohio

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this special weather statement at Aug 21, 2011, 1:08 PM EDT for Licking County, Ohio. It was in force for 37 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: Aug 21, 2011, 1:08 PM EDT (17:08 UTC)
Expired: Aug 21, 2011, 1:45 PM EDT
In force: 37 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, OH

County Licking County, OH

The radar

The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 142 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:09 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, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 140 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: 1624 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -21 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 844 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 30 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 78 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 1.2

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The text

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

855 
WWUS81 KILN 211708
SPSILN

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
108 PM EDT SUN AUG 21 2011

OHZ056-211745-
LICKING OH-
108 PM EDT SUN AUG 21 2011

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT SOUTHEASTERN LICKING COUNTY
THROUGH 145 PM EDT...

AT 105 PM EDT...RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR INTERSTATE
70 AT STATE ROUTE 13...JUST NORTHEAST OF BUCKEYE LAKE...MOVING EAST 
AT 25 MPH.

WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH AND ONE HALF INCH DIAMETER HAIL ARE POSSIBLE
WITH THIS STORM. 

THE STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF
SOUTHEASTERN LICKING COUNTY...INCLUDING BROWNSVILLE AND GRATIOT.

RESIDENTS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT. IF THIS STORM BECOMES
STRONGER...THEN A WARNING MAY BE NEEDED.

LAT...LON 3994 8223 3992 8223 3991 8224 3992 8242
      3993 8247 3993 8250 4008 8242 4003 8219
      3995 8219

$$


BINAU

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 21, 11:51 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Greene	39 min
Aug 21, 12:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Madison	46 min
Aug 21, 12:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Montgomery	34 min
Aug 21, 1:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Pickaway	60 min
Aug 21, 1:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Greene, Montgomery	26 min
Aug 21, 1:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Fayette, Pickaway, Ross	42 min
Aug 21, 1:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Highland	41 min
Aug 21, 1:38 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Franklin, Madison	52 min
Aug 21, 1:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Greene, Madison, Montgomery	44 min
Aug 21, 2:03 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Hocking	42 min
Aug 21, 2:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Clinton	33 min
Aug 21, 2:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Fayette	44 min
Aug 21, 3:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Pike	45 min
Aug 21, 3:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Ross	48 min
Aug 21, 3:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Pike, Ross	26 min
Aug 21, 5:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Hamilton	28 min
Aug 21, 5:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Clermont	42 min
Aug 21, 5:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Fayette	46 min
Aug 21, 6:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Adams, Brown	57 min
Aug 21, 7:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Hocking	60 min
Aug 21, 7:11 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Adams, Scioto	49 min
Aug 21, 4:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Boone	49 min
Aug 21, 5:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Campbell, Kenton	27 min
Aug 21, 6:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Campbell	43 min
Aug 21, 7:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Lewis, Mason	62 min
Aug 21, 4:20 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Franklin	40 min

Nearby

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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.