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Special Weather Statement, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this special weather statement at Mar 18, 2012, 8:39 PM EDT for Hocking County, Ohio. It was in force for 36 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 18, 2012, 8:39 PM EDT (00:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 18, 2012, 9:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
County Hocking County, OH
The radar
The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 131 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:41 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 129 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 967 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1440 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 72 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 160 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 3.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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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 18, 7:52 PM EDT, 47 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 18, 7:52 PM EDT, 47 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 752 PM EDT SUN MAR 18 2012 .SYNOPSIS... SOUTHERLY FLOW ON THE BACKSIDE OF HIGH PRESSURE WILL ALLOW AN UNSEASONABLY WARM AIRMASS TO PERSIST THROUGH MUCH OF THE WEEK. DISTURBANCES IN THE UPPER ATMOSPHERE INTERACTING WITH AN UNSTABLE AIRMASS WILL PRODUCE SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS TODAY AND POSSIBLY ON MONDAY AFTERNOON. AN UPPER LEVEL HIGH WILL MOVE IN LATE MONDAY WHICH WILL BRING AN END TO THE THUNDERSTORMS. && .NEAR TERM /UNTIL 6 AM MONDAY MORNING/... SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE DEVELOPING IN A MARGINALLY UNSTABLE AIRMASS ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF A VORT MAX MOVING THROUGH NORTHERN OHIO. A 500 MB WIND SPEED MAX WILL ENHANCE THUNDERSTORM FORMATION AND STRENGTH. IN ADDITION...WBZ AROUND 9 KFT FAVORS LARGE HAIL. AS THUNDERSTORMS EXPAND IN COVERAGE...SOME CELLS MAY BECOME SEVERE AND SPC HAS PLACED THE AREA IN A SLIGHT RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. ACTIVITY SHOULD FALL APART QUICKLY THIS EVENING AS DAYTIME HEATING WANES AND FORCING SHIFTS EASTWARD. LOWS TONIGHT WILL REMAIN WELL ABOVE NORMAL IN THE UPPER 50S. && .SHORT TERM /6 AM MONDAY MORNING THROUGH TUESDAY/... THOUGH CONDITIONS WILL BE LESS FAVORABLE FOR THUNDERSTORM FORMATION ON MONDAY WITH AN UPPER RIDGE STARTING TO BUILD IN...ANOTHER WEAK MID LEVEL DISTURBANCE MAY HELP A FEW THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP ON MONDAY AFTERNOON IN THE LINGERING UNSTABLE AIRMASS. ANY ACTIVITY WILL END MONDAY EVENING AS THE DISTURBANCE MOVES NORTHEAST AND DAYTIME HEATING LESSENS. AS THE UPPER RIDGE BUILDS OVERHEAD AND SURFACE PRESSURE PATTERN BECOMES ANTICYCLONIC ON MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT...CONVECTION WILL BE ABSENT...SKIES WILL BE MAINLY CLEAR...AND TEMPERATURES WILL STAY UNSEASONABLY WARM. HIGHS AROUND 80 EACH DAY WILL BE CLOSE TO OR ABOVE DAILY RECORD HIGHS. && .LONG TERM /TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY/... HIGHLY AMPLIFIED MID/UPPER LEVEL FLOW PATTERN WITH A LARGE SPRAWLING RIDGE CONTINUING TO INFLUENCE OUR WEATHER AT THE BEGINNING OF THE LONG TERM PERIOD. PREFER SLOWER ECMWF SOLN GIVEN HIGH DEGREE OF AMPLIFICATION. THIS WILL CONTINUE TO PROVIDE UNSEASONABLY WARM TEMPS AND DRY WEATHER WEATHER THRU MID WEEK. HAVE MAINTAINED A DRY FCST FOR WED AND THURSDAY. EXPECT HIGHS TO RANGE FROM THE UPPER 70S NORTH TO 80 SOUTH ON BOTH WED AND THU. AGAIN RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURES WILL BE IN JEOPARDY. RECORD HIGHS FOR WED ARE 82 AT CVG, 78 AT DAY AND 77 AT CMH. THE RECORDS FOR THURSDAY ARE WARMER WITH...85 CVG, 84 AT DAY AND 82 AT CMH. NUMERICAL MODELS CONTINUE TO TREND SLOWER BUT ARE HAVING A DIFFICULT TIME WITH CONSISTENCY REGARDING EASTWARD PROGRESSION OF UPPER LOW OVER THE NATIONS MID SECTION. WILL INTRODUCE LOW POPS INTO THE SW EARLY FRIDAY AND THEN SPREAD CHC POPS NE ACRS THE FA DURG THE DAY. WL BUMP POPS UP TO HIGH CHC EARLY SATURDAY WITH THE APPROACH OF SFC FRONTAL BOUNDARY. UNDER CONTD INFLUENCE OF THE UPPER LOW...WL CONTINUE LOW POPS THRU SAT AND THEN DIMINISH TO SLIGHT CHC ON SUNDAY AS THE INFLUENCE OF THE UPPER LOW BEGINS TO SHIFT SE. HIGH TEMPS WILL COOL BUT REMAIN ABOVE NORMAL...WITH FCST HIGHS IN THE UPPER 60S/70S ON FRIDAY AND LOWER AND MID 60S SATURDAY AND THEN UPPER 50S/LOWER 60S. && .AVIATION /00Z MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY/... DISTURBANCE ROTATING THROUGH NE OHIO COMBINED WITH AN AREA OF LOW LEVEL CONVERGENCE INTO CENTRAL OHIO HAS PRODUCED THUNDERSTORMS THERE. WILL CONTINUE WITH TSRA AND HEAVY RAIN WITH IFR VSBYS AT KCMH AND KLCK FOR THE NEXT COUPLE OF HOURS. AS INSTABILITY DECREASES AND VORT MAX MOVES FARTHER AWAY...THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD GRADUALLY DISSIPATE THIS EVENING. FOR THE OVERNIGHT PERIOD...JUST SOME MID AND HIGH LVL CLOUDS EXPECTED AFTER MIDNIGHT. GIVEN HIGH DEWPOINTS AND RECENT RAINFALL...WOULD EXPECTED SOME MVFR AND LOCALLY IFR VSBYS. HAVE PLACED IFR VSBYS AT KLUK...AND KCMH...KLCK WHICH HAD SOME HEAVY RAIN. ON MONDAY...A MID LVL RIDGE WILL TRY TO BUILD NORTH INTO THE OHIO VALLEY. AIRMASS WILL DESTABILIZE IN THE AFTERNOON WITH A FEW POP UP SHOWERS/STORMS POSSIBLE. COVERAGE SHOULD BE WIDELY SCATTERED SO HAVE NOT MENTIONED ANYTHING IN THE TAFS ATTM. OUTLOOK...THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE ON FRIDAY. && .ILN WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... OH...NONE. KY...NONE. IN...NONE. && SYNOPSIS...CONIGLIO NEAR TERM...CONIGLIO SHORT TERM...CONIGLIO LONG TERM...AR AVIATION...HATZOS/HICKMAN
Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 18, 5:14 PM EDT, 3 hours 25 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 514 PM EDT SUN MAR 18 2012 KYZ097>100-OHZ026-044>046-052>056-062>065-072>074-079>082-088-192115- BRACKEN-ROBERTSON-MASON-LEWIS-HARDIN-LOGAN-UNION OH-DELAWARE- CHAMPAIGN-CLARK-MADISON-FRANKLIN OH-LICKING-GREENE-FAYETTE OH- PICKAWAY-FAIRFIELD-CLINTON-ROSS-HOCKING-BROWN-HIGHLAND-ADAMS-PIKE- SCIOTO- 514 PM EDT SUN MAR 18 2012 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST KENTUCKY...NORTHERN KENTUCKY...CENTRAL OHIO...MIAMI VALLEY OF OHIO...SOUTH CENTRAL OHIO...SOUTHWEST OHIO AND WEST CENTRAL OHIO. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING THIS AFTERNOON INTO THIS EVENING WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND HEAVY RAINFALL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. INZ050-058-059-066-073>075-080-KYZ089>096-OHZ034-035-042-043-051-060- 061-070-071-077-078-192115- WAYNE-FAYETTE IN-UNION IN-FRANKLIN IN-RIPLEY-DEARBORN-OHIO- SWITZERLAND-CARROLL-GALLATIN-BOONE-KENTON-CAMPBELL-OWEN-GRANT- PENDLETON-MERCER-AUGLAIZE-DARKE-SHELBY-MIAMI-PREBLE-MONTGOMERY- BUTLER-WARREN-HAMILTON-CLERMONT- 514 PM EDT SUN MAR 18 2012 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EAST CENTRAL INDIANA...SOUTHEAST INDIANA...NORTHERN KENTUCKY...MIAMI VALLEY OF OHIO...SOUTHWEST OHIO AND WEST CENTRAL OHIO. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. THE CHANCE FOR HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Wilmington, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 18, 8:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Fairfield, Franklin, Licking | 47 min |
| Mar 18, 8:33 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ILN | Fairfield, Franklin | 114 min |
| Mar 18, 8:42 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILN | Pickaway | 33 min |
| Mar 18, 8:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Fairfield, Franklin, Pickaway | 40 min |
| Mar 18, 9:28 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILN | Hocking | 47 min |
| Mar 18, 10:09 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILN | Montgomery | 36 min |
| Mar 18, 11:06 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILN | Greene | 54 min |
| Mar 19, 12:26 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILN | Clinton, Warren | 64 min |
| Mar 19, 1:55 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILN | Union | 35 min |
| Mar 19, 3:18 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ILN | Hocking | 2 hr |
| Mar 19, 3:59 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Hocking | 116 min |
| Mar 19, 4:14 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILN | Hocking | 61 min |
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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.