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Special Weather Statement, NWS Wilmington, OH

July 26, 2012Mason County, Kentucky

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this special weather statement at Jul 26, 2012, 9:09 PM EDT for Mason County, Kentucky. 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: Jul 26, 2012, 9:09 PM EDT (01:09 UTC)
Expired: Jul 26, 2012, 9:45 PM EDT
In force: 36 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, OH

County Mason County, KY

The radar

The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:10 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 369 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: 97 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -65 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 572 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 91 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 237 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.4

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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 Jul 26, 9:04 PM EDT, 5 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 26, 9:04 PM EDT, 5 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 26, 8:16 PM EDT, 53 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 26, 7:57 PM EDT, 1 hour 12 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 26, 8:25 PM EDT, 44 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 26, 8:34 PM EDT, 35 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 26, 8:42 PM EDT, 27 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 26, 8:51 PM EDT, 18 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 26, 9:09 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
Jul 26, 8:18 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILN	Adams, Brown, Clermont, Highland	3 hr
Jul 26, 8:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Brown	35 min
Jul 26, 8:51 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Brown	39 min
Jul 26, 9:08 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILN	Clermont	112 min
Jul 26, 9:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Adams	41 min
Jul 26, 9:40 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILN	Adams, Brown, Scioto	2 hr
Jul 26, 9:59 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILN	Adams, Brown, Scioto	6 hr
Jul 27, 11:25 AM EDT	Flash Flood Watch	ILN	Adams, Brown, Highland, Pike, Scioto	13 hr
Jul 27, 4:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Hamilton	28 min
Jul 27, 5:04 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Montgomery	26 min
Jul 27, 5:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Hamilton	35 min
Jul 27, 5:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Clermont	29 min
Jul 27, 5:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Brown, Clermont, Highland	49 min
Jul 27, 5:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Butler	33 min
Jul 27, 5:57 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Brown, Clermont	33 min
Jul 27, 6:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Clinton	40 min
Jul 27, 6:24 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Highland	36 min
Jul 27, 6:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Adams	25 min
Jul 27, 7:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Brown, Clermont	60 min
Jul 27, 7:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Pike, Scioto	28 min
Jul 27, 7:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Adams, Brown, Scioto	52 min
Jul 26, 8:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Boone, Campbell, Gallatin, Grant, Kenton, Pendleton	19 min
Jul 27, 12:13 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILN	Lewis	8 hr
Jul 27, 12:22 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Lewis, Mason, Robertson	38 min
Jul 27, 12:46 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILN	Bracken, Mason, Robertson	4 hr
Jul 27, 12:58 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Lewis	47 min
Jul 27, 5:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Boone, Carroll, Gallatin	50 min
Jul 27, 6:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Boone, Campbell, Carroll, Gallatin, Grant, Kenton and 2 more	42 min
Jul 27, 7:06 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Owen	24 min
Jul 27, 7:54 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILN	Lewis	3 hr
Jul 27, 3:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Fayette, Franklin, Union	37 min
Jul 27, 3:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Ripley	34 min
Jul 27, 4:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Union	31 min
Jul 27, 4:35 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Dearborn	25 min
Jul 27, 5:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Franklin	30 min
Jul 27, 5:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Dearborn, Ripley	35 min
Jul 27, 5:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Dearborn, Ripley	39 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.