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Special Weather Statement, NWS Wilmington, OH

March 24, 2012Madison County, Union County, Ohio

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this special weather statement at Mar 24, 2012, 2:56 AM EDT for Madison County, Union County, Ohio. It was in force for 34 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 24, 2012, 2:56 AM EDT (06:56 UTC)
Expired: Mar 24, 2012, 3:30 AM EDT
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, OH

Counties Madison County, OH, Union County, OH

The radar

The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:58 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, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 88 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: 672 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -1 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 552 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 133 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 155 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.4
Supercell composite: 3.2

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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 24, 2:09 AM EDT, 47 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 24, 2:09 AM EDT, 47 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 24, 12:13 AM EDT, 2 hours 43 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
1213 AM EDT SAT MAR 24 2012

INZ050-058-059-066-073>075-080-KYZ089>100-OHZ034-035-042-043-051-
060>062-070>073-077>082-088-250415-
WAYNE-FAYETTE IN-UNION IN-FRANKLIN IN-RIPLEY-DEARBORN-OHIO-
SWITZERLAND-CARROLL-GALLATIN-BOONE-KENTON-CAMPBELL-OWEN-GRANT-
PENDLETON-BRACKEN-ROBERTSON-MASON-LEWIS-MERCER-AUGLAIZE-DARKE-SHELBY-
MIAMI-PREBLE-MONTGOMERY-GREENE-BUTLER-WARREN-CLINTON-ROSS-HAMILTON-
CLERMONT-BROWN-HIGHLAND-ADAMS-PIKE-SCIOTO-
1213 AM EDT SAT MAR 24 2012

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

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT.

THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY.

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

OHZ026-044>046-052>056-063>065-074-250415-
HARDIN-LOGAN-UNION OH-DELAWARE-CHAMPAIGN-CLARK-MADISON-FRANKLIN OH-
LICKING-FAYETTE OH-PICKAWAY-FAIRFIELD-HOCKING-
1213 AM EDT SAT MAR 24 2012

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL OHIO...MIAMI VALLEY
OF OHIO AND WEST CENTRAL OHIO.

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT.

HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY.

TEMPERATURES MAY APPROACH FREEZING LATE MONDAY NIGHT INTO EARLY
TUESDAY MORNING AS HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS INTO THE REGION.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Mar 24, 1:28 AM EDT, 1 hour 28 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
128 AM EDT SAT MAR 24 2012

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

0126 AM     HAIL             1 N SEVEN MILE          39.49N 84.55W
03/24/2012  E0.75 INCH       BUTLER             OH   TRAINED SPOTTER

&&

SFH

Special weather statement, Mar 24, 1:28 AM EDT, 1 hour 28 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
128 AM EDT SAT MAR 24 2012

OHZ060-061-070-071-240600-
BUTLER OH-MONTGOMERY OH-PREBLE OH-WARREN OH-
128 AM EDT SAT MAR 24 2012

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT NORTHWESTERN WARREN...EASTERN
PREBLE...MONTGOMERY AND NORTHEASTERN BUTLER COUNTIES THROUGH 200 AM
EDT...

AT 126 AM EDT...RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR SEVEN
MILE...MOVING NORTH AT 30 MPH.

WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH AND PENNY SIZE HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS
STORM.

SOME LOCATIONS THAT MAY BE AFFECTED INCLUDE...MIDDLETOWN...CAMDEN...
FRANKLIN...CARLISLE...SPRINGBORO...GRATIS...MIAMISBURG...EATON...WEST
ALEXANDRIA...WEST CARROLLTON...TROTWOOD AND OAKWOOD.

ALSO...SOMERVILLE...JACKSONBURG...WEST ELKTON...PEKIN...POAST TOWN
HEIGHTS...WHEATVILLE...GERMANTOWN AND FARMERSVILLE ARE NEAR THE PATH
OF THIS STRONG THUNDERSTORM.

LAT...LON 3988 8460 3990 8426 3981 8410 3949 8419
      3935 8432 3953 8469

HATZOS

Special weather statement, Mar 24, 1:52 AM EDT, 1 hour 4 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Mar 24, 1:55 AM EDT, 1 hour 1 minute before

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Local storm report, Mar 24, 2:06 AM EDT, 50 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Mar 24, 2:56 AM 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 23, 8:16 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	ILN	Clinton, Greene	29 min
Mar 24, 12:30 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Hamilton	30 min
Mar 24, 12:51 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Clermont	39 min
Mar 24, 12:57 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Butler, Hamilton, Warren	33 min
Mar 24, 1:21 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Adams, Brown	39 min
Mar 24, 1:28 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Montgomery	32 min
Mar 24, 1:47 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Adams	18 min
Mar 24, 1:52 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Highland	23 min
Mar 24, 1:55 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Miami, Montgomery	35 min
Mar 24, 3:22 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Delaware, Franklin, Union	38 min
Mar 24, 3:58 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Delaware, Licking	32 min
Mar 23, 11:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Gallatin, Grant, Owen	48 min
Mar 24, 12:10 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Gallatin, Grant	35 min
Mar 23, 10:49 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Dearborn, Fayette, Franklin, Ohio, Ripley, Switzerland and 1 more	41 min
Mar 23, 11:22 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Dearborn, Fayette, Franklin, Union, Wayne	38 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.