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Special Weather Statement, NWS Wilmington, OH

May 4, 2012Auglaize County, Ohio

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this special weather statement at May 4, 2012, 2:43 PM EDT for Auglaize County, Ohio. It was in force for 32 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: May 4, 2012, 2:43 PM EDT (18:43 UTC)
Expired: May 4, 2012, 3:15 PM EDT
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, OH

County Auglaize County, OH

The radar

The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 134 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:43 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, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 133 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: 476 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -12 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 540 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 88 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 44 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 May 4, 1:22 PM EDT, 1 hour 21 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 4, 1:22 PM EDT, 1 hour 21 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 4, 9:52 AM EDT, 4 hours 51 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 4, 2:43 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
243 PM EDT FRI MAY 4 2012

OHZ035-041915-
AUGLAIZE OH-
243 PM EDT FRI MAY 4 2012

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT CENTRAL AUGLAIZE COUNTY THROUGH
315 PM EDT...

AT 240 PM EDT...RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR
WAYNESFIELD...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

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

SOME LOCATIONS THAT MAY BE AFFECTED INCLUDE...WAYNESFIELD.

LAT...LON 4060 8388 4055 8392 4064 8411 4065 8410
      4065 8389 4065 8388

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 4, 2:47 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILN	Auglaize	88 min
May 4, 3:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Hardin	30 min
May 4, 3:26 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILN	Hardin	94 min
May 4, 4:05 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILN	Auglaize, Hardin, Logan	65 min
May 4, 4:38 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Butler	37 min
May 4, 4:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Butler, Clinton, Greene, Warren	34 min
May 4, 5:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Greene, Montgomery	26 min
May 4, 5:11 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Logan	34 min
May 4, 5:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Champaign	36 min
May 4, 5:42 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILN	Champaign, Logan, Union	2 hr
May 4, 5:44 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	ILN	Champaign	22 min
May 4, 6:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Champaign	28 min
May 4, 6:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Madison	31 min
May 4, 6:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Miami	23 min
May 4, 6:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Fayette, Franklin, Madison, Pickaway	45 min
May 4, 6:49 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILN	Delaware, Franklin, Madison, Union	116 min
May 4, 6:54 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Warren	66 min
May 4, 7:36 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILN	Auglaize, Champaign, Clark, Greene, Logan, Madison and 4 more	5 hr
May 4, 7:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Adams	25 min
May 4, 7:53 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILN	Champaign, Clark	4 hr
May 4, 7:55 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILN	Delaware, Fairfield, Franklin, Hocking, Licking, Madison and 2 more	4 hr
May 4, 6:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Bracken	29 min
May 4, 4:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Ohio	52 min

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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.