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Special Weather Statement, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this special weather statement at Aug 10, 2012, 12:38 AM EDT for Shelby 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 10, 2012, 12:38 AM EDT (04:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 10, 2012, 1:15 AM EDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
County Shelby County, OH
The radar
The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:38 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, 4.6 hours before the alert went out and 96 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
- 339 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -117 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 841 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 41 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 51 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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</html>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 Aug 9, 8:08 PM EDT, 4 hours 30 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 9, 8:08 PM EDT, 4 hours 30 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 808 PM EDT THU AUG 9 2012 .SYNOPSIS... SURFACE LOW PRESSURE WILL RIDE ALONG A FRONTAL BOUNDARY TONIGHT AND STRENGTHEN AS AN ENERGETIC UPPER LEVEL LOW CLOSES IN FROM THE NORTHWEST. SIGNIFICANTLY COOLER AIR WILL BE PULLED IN ON THE NORTHWEST FLOW AS THE SYSTEM SPINS OVER THE GREAT LAKES REGION FRIDAY AND EXIT ON SATURDAY. && .NEAR TERM /UNTIL 6 AM FRIDAY MORNING/... STRONG UPPER LEVEL RIDGE TO REMAIN OVER THE WESTERN US WITH A MEAN TROF OVER EASTERN CANADA AND NE US. STRONG S/W ENERGY OVER THE UPR MS VLY TO DIG SE WITH UPR LOW DROPPING INTO THE GREAT LAKES BY FRIDAY MORNING. EMBEDDED MID LEVEL S/W AHD OF THIS DIGGING FEATURE ALONG WITH DIFFERENTIAL HEATING (CLOUDS VS. SUNNY) LED TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF SCTD DEEP CONVECTION ALONG AND SE OF THE I-71 CORRIDOR. WITH MODERATE INSTBY SOME OF THESE STORMS PRODUCED SEVERE WEATHER. THE LEADING EDGE OF THESE STORMS AND BETTER FORCING HAS SHIFTED EAST OF ILN/S FA AND THEREFORE HAVE REMOVED THESE EASTERN COUNTIES FROM SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 567. ADDITIONAL OUTFLOW DRIVEN STORMS HAVE DEVELOPED ACRS EASTERN INDIANA AND WESTERN OHIO. A COUPLE OF THESE STORMS HAVE PRODUCED GOOD CORES WITH LARGE HAIL. ISOLD SHORT LIVED SEVERE STORMS WITH DAMAGING WINDS/LARGE HAIL BEING THE MAIN THREATS WILL CONTINUE THRU THE EVENING ACRS THE WEST. HEAVY RAIN AND FLOODING IS ALSO A THREAT. SFC WAVE DEVELOPS OVER THE MID MS VLY IN RESPONSE TO THE DIGGING UPR SYSTEM. THIS WAVE TO TRACK NE THRU OHIO TO A POSITION NEAR LE BY FRI MORNING WITH TRAILING SFC COLD FRONT PUSHING INTO OHIO LATE. BETTER DYNAMICS COME INTO PLAY WITH 30-40KT 0-6KM SHEAR AHD OF THE SFC FRONT BUT INSTBY BECOMES MARGINAL. EXPECT A BETTER CHANCE FOR ORGANIZED STORMS AFTER 03Z. WILL CONTINUE TO HIGHLIGHT SEVERE WEATHER POTENTIAL THIS EVENING WITH THE ONGOING OUTFLOW DRIVEN CONVECTION AND THEN AGAIN OVERNIGHT AND KEEP POPS IN LKLY TO CATEGORICAL WITH BEST POPS OVER THE NORTH. GUID TEMPS CLOSE TONIGHT WITH LOWS FROM LOWER 60S NW TO THE UPPER 60S SE. && .SHORT TERM /6 AM FRIDAY MORNING THROUGH FRIDAY NIGHT/... UPPER LEVEL LOW TO MIGRATE SLOWLY THRU THE GREAT LAKES FRIDAY. SFC WAVE NEAR LAKE ERIE FRIDAY MORNING TO TRACK THRU THE EASTERN GREAT LAKES WITH SOUTHWARD TRAILING COLD FRONT SWEEPING EAST THRU ILN/S FA FRIDAY MORNING. WL CONTINUE LKLY POPS EARLY WITH FROPA AND THEN DROP OFF POPS TO SLIGHT CHC. WL CONTINUE CHC POPS INTO AFTN WITH INFLUENCE OF UPR LOW AND SFC TROF DROPPING SE THRU ILN/S FA. CAA AND CLOUDS WILL KEEP TEMPS DOWN ON FRIDAY. HAVE HIGHS GENERALLY 10 TO 15 DEGREES BELOW NORMAL. HAVE HIGHS RANGING FROM NEAR 70 NORTH WHERE CLOUD COVER IS EXPECTED TO BE MOST EXTENSIVE TO THE UPPER 70S FAR SOUTH. AS THE UPPER LOW PULLS OUT...SFC HIGH PRESSURE WILL NOSE INTO THE OHIO VALLEY. WILL DIMINISH CHC OF SHOWERS TO SLIGHT CHC ACRS FROM THE SW FRIDAY NIGHT AND ALLOW FOR PARTIAL CLEARING TO TAKE PLACE. EXPECT COOL TEMPERATURES WITH OVERNIGHT LOWS IN THE MID AND UPR 50S. && .LONG TERM /SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY/... DEEP CLOSED LOW WILL BEGIN THE PERIOD /12Z SATURDAY/ OVER THE THUMB OF LOWER MICHIGAN...WITH COOL 850MB TEMPS AROUND +11C EXPECTED TO LINGER OVER THE AREA ON SATURDAY. THIS SUPPORTS GOING FORECAST HIGHS IN THE MID 70S FOR MUCH OF THE AREA. MAINTAINED A SMALL THREAT OF SHOWERS ON SATURDAY MORNING OVER CNTRL OH NEAREST STRONGEST CYCLONIC FLOW AND SUBTLE FORCING BEFORE LOW BEGINS TO DRIFT NORTHEAST A BIT ON SATURDAY AFTERNOON. A LITTLE WARMER ON SUNDAY BUT STILL BELOW NORMAL AS 850MB TEMPS RISE A FEW DEGREES. A LITTLE MORE SUNSHINE ON SUNDAY IN COMPARISON TO SATURDAY AS WELL SHOULD AID IN THE TEMPERATURE RISE. WEAKER SHORTWAVE ENERGY CRESTING THE LARGE WRN CONUS RIDGE WILL DIVE AND AMPLIFY A BIT INTO THE ERN CONUS L/W TROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT INTO MONDAY NIGHT. THIS ENHANCED FLOW AND EMBEDDED ENERGY WILL INDUCE A WEAK MID LEVEL WARM ADVECTION REGIME AND MAY PROMOTE A FEW AREAS OF SHOWERS BEGINNING MONDAY AND CARRYING INTO MONDAY NIGHT. THERE ARE SUGGESTIONS IN SOME DETERMINISTIC RUNS THAT RAIN CHANCE MAY CARRY /OR EVEN MORE FOCUSED ON/ TUESDAY...BUT FOR NOW WILL RUN WITH A MORE STABLE SIGNAL OF MONDAY/MONDAY EVENING FOR RAIN CHANCES...AND IT/S A RATHER LOW CHANCE GIVEN SUBTLE FORCING. INTO WED AND THURS OF NEXT WEEK...EXPECT NERN FRINGE OF WRN CONUS RIDGE TO BEGIN BUILDING BACK INTO THE AREA...WITH WARMING 850MB TEMPS TO 16C- 17C...SUPPORTING MORE NEAR/ABOVE NORMAL TEMPS 85-90 IN MOST AREAS. && .AVIATION /00Z FRIDAY THROUGH TUESDAY/... FIRST LINE OF CONVECTION CONTINUING TO MOVE THROUGH KCMH AND KLCK TAF SITE AREA. ANOTHER AREA OF CONVECTION DEVELOPING IN WESTERN FORECAST AREA THIS EVENING IN RESPONSE TO BETTER LIFT AND DYNAMICS WITH UPPER LEVEL SYSTEM APPROACHING REGION. THESE SHOWERS/THUNDERSTORMS MAY EFFECT MAINLY KDAY AND KLUK OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS. THE SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORM THREAT WILL PERSIST THROUGH MUCH OF THE NIGHT...UNTIL THE COLD FRONT PUSHES EAST OF THE TAF SITES. ON THE BACK SIDE OF THE FRONT...EXPECT A PERIOD OF MVFR CIGS TO HANG IN THROUGH AT LEAST MID MORNING FRIDAY. WE COULD ALSO SEE A FEW SHOWERS DEVELOP IN THE WRAP AROUND MOISTURE FROM LATE MORNING INTO THE AFTERNOON...ESPECIALLY AT THE NORTHERN TAF SITES. VFR CONDITIONS EXPECTED BY AROUND 15Z FRIDAY AT ALL TAF SITES. .OUTLOOK...NO SIGNIFICANT WEATHER EXPECTED. && .ILN WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... OH...NONE. KY...NONE. IN...NONE. && SYNOPSIS...AR NEAR TERM...AR SHORT TERM...AR LONG TERM...BINAU AVIATION...PARKER
Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 10, 12:27 AM EDT, 11 minutes before
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Local storm report, Aug 9, 8:20 PM EDT, 4 hours 18 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
820 PM EDT THU AUG 09 2012
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0755 PM HAIL 3 SE CAMDEN 39.61N 84.61W
08/09/2012 E0.50 INCH PREBLE OH BROADCAST MEDIA
DIME SIZE HAIL
&&
SNYDERLocal storm report, Aug 9, 8:25 PM EDT, 4 hours 13 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
825 PM EDT THU AUG 09 2012
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0530 PM HAIL AMANDA 39.65N 82.74W
08/09/2012 E0.50 INCH FAIRFIELD OH TRAINED SPOTTER
&&
HUGHESLocal storm report, Aug 9, 8:59 PM EDT, 3 hours 39 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
859 PM EDT THU AUG 09 2012
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0840 PM TSTM WND DMG HARTFORD 40.24N 82.69W
08/09/2012 LICKING OH LAW ENFORCEMENT
TREES AND WIRES DOWN. TIME ESTIMATED BY RADAR.
&&
BCLocal storm report, Aug 9, 9:31 PM EDT, 3 hours 7 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
931 PM EDT THU AUG 09 2012
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0440 PM HAIL 4 SSE VISALIA 38.86N 84.42W
08/09/2012 E0.75 INCH CAMPBELL KY PUBLIC
RELAYED BY NSSL-SHAVE
&&
SNYDERSpecial weather statement, Aug 9, 10:54 PM EDT, 1 hour 44 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
1054 PM EDT THU AUG 9 2012
OHZ034-100345-
MERCER OH-
1054 PM EDT THU AUG 9 2012
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT MERCER COUNTY THROUGH 1145 PM
EDT...
AT 1049 PM EDT...RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 19 MILES WEST
OF CHATTANOOGA...OR OVER EASTERN WELLS COUNTY INDIANA...MOVING EAST
AT 35 MPH. ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WILL OCCUR AHEAD OF THIS
STRONGER STORM.
WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.
IN ADDITION...HEAVY RAIN CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM.
SOME LOCATIONS THAT MAY BE AFFECTED INCLUDE...ROCKFORD...COLDWATER
AND CELINA.
ALSO...CHATTANOOGA...WABASH...TAMA...CARTHAGENA...MONTEZUMA...
MENDON...NEPTUNE AND CHICKASAW ARE NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STRONG
THUNDERSTORM.
WATER WILL POND ON ROADS AND MAY QUICKLY FILL ROADSIDE DITCHES AND
SMALL STREAMS.
RESIDENTS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT. IF THIS STORM BECOMES
STRONGER...THEN A WARNING MAY BE NEEDED.
LAT...LON 4073 8446 4061 8445 4041 8446 4049 8481
4073 8481 4073 8480
SNYDERSpecial weather statement, Aug 10, 12:38 AM EDT, 0 minutes before
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 9, 8:10 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILN | Licking | 35 min |
| Aug 9, 8:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Delaware, Franklin, Licking | 33 min |
| Aug 9, 8:26 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ILN | Delaware, Fairfield, Franklin, Licking, Madison, Pickaway and 1 more | 2 hr |
| Aug 9, 10:54 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILN | Mercer | 51 min |
| Aug 9, 10:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Auglaize, Mercer, Shelby | 61 min |
| Aug 9, 11:41 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ILN | Auglaize, Mercer | 2 hr |
| Aug 10, 12:43 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILN | Licking | 32 min |
| Aug 10, 2:26 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ILN | Boone, Campbell, Carroll, Gallatin, Grant, Kenton and 2 more | 3 hr |
| Aug 9, 8:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Fayette, Franklin | 50 min |
| Aug 9, 10:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Dearborn, Fayette, Franklin, Ripley, Union, Wayne | 37 min |
| Aug 10, 12:54 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILN | Ohio, Switzerland | 51 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.