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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 40, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 2013, 12:52 AM EDT for 7 counties in Ohio. It was in force for 38 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 13, 2013, 12:52 AM EDT (04:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 2013, 1:30 AM EDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Champaign County, OH, Delaware County, OH, Franklin County, OH, Hardin County, OH, Logan County, OH, Madison County, OH, Union County, OH
The radar
The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:54 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 5:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 9 hr |
| Jun 12, 11:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 95 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
- 2978 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -57 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1256 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 160 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 284 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.7
- Supercell composite
- 11.6
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 12, 9:54 PM EDT, 2 hours 58 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 12, 9:54 PM EDT, 2 hours 58 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 954 PM EDT WED JUN 12 2013 .SYNOPSIS... A DEEP LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED STRONG COLD FRONT WILL MOVE THROUGH THE REGION LATE TONIGHT AND THURSDAY MORNING. STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE AHEAD OF THIS COLD FRONT THIS EVENING AND OVERNIGHT. HIGH PRESSURE WILL WORK INTO THE REGION THURSDAY NIGHT...OFFERING COOLER TEMPERATURES AND DRY WEATHER. && .NEAR TERM /UNTIL 6 AM THURSDAY MORNING/... BY WEDNESDAY EVENING CONVECTION HAD DEVELOPED ALONG AND NORTH OF ILN/S EXTREME NE FA BORDER. THIS CONVECTION HAD DEVELOPED ALONG AND NEAR THE WARM FRONT IN NORTHERN INDIANA AND NORTHERN OH. A CONVECTIVE SYSTEM HAD FORMED IN NORTHERN IL...WI...AND NORTHERN INDIANA BY THIS EVENING. THIS CONVECTIVE SYSTEM WILL CONTINUE TO APPROACH WESTERN PARTS OF FA AND MOVE INTO FA OVERNIGHT. A SIGNIFICANT SHORTWAVE IN NW FLOW ALOFT WILL DROP SE FROM THE UPPER MS VLY INTO THE OH VALLEY BY THU MORNING. THE ASSOCIATED SFC LOW PRESSURE WILL DEEPEN AND TRACK ACROSS NRN INDIANA AND OHIO TONIGHT. CAPE VALUES REMAIN ON AVERAGE 3000 J/KG APPROACHING AROUND 4000 J/KG LATE THIS EVENING. CONVECTION THIS EVENING HAS BEEN IN THE FORM OF DESCRETE CELLS. THE PRIMARY THREATS FROM THESE STORMS WILL BE DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL ALTHOUGH ISOLATED TORNADOS CANNOT BE RULED OUT. IN ADDITION SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE SOME HEAVY RAINFALL. EXPECT CAP TO WEAKEN IN RESPONSE TO MID-LEVEL COOLING AND LIFT OVERNIGHT...AS UPSTREAM MID LEVEL S/W DIGS SOUTHEAST. EXPECT THUNDERSTORM COMPLEX TO DROP SE ACROSS INDIANA INTO ILN/S FA OVERNIGHT. INCREASED POPS TO CATEGORICAL OVERNIGHT. STRENGTHENING LOW LEVEL JET INCREASING TO ABOUT 50 KTS. GIVEN STRONG DYNAMICS AND INSTABILITY...SIGNIFICANT SEVERE WEATHER EVENT POSSIBLE WITH THE BEST TIME BETWEEN 04Z AND 07Z. AN ORGANIZED CONVECTIVE SYSTEM SHOULD DROP SE ACRS ILNS FA. MODELS HAVE BEEN CONSISTENT IN SHOWING THE POTENTIAL FOR WIDESPREAD DAMAGING WIND EVENT TONIGHT. EXPECT THE MAIN THREAT TO BE DAMAGING WIND GUSTS. LARGE HAIL AND HEAVY RAIN WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE. GIVEN LOW LEVEL SHEAR...ISOLD TORNADOES WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE. WITH PROGRESSIVE NATURE OF SYSTEM DO NOT EXPECT TO SEE WIDESPREAD FLOODING OR FLASH FLOODING ISSUES IN MOST PLACES. HOWEVER...AREAS WHERE THUNDERSTORMS TRAIN WILL BE MOST AT RISK FOR FLASH FLOODING/FLOODING. && .SHORT TERM /6 AM THURSDAY MORNING THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT/... THE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT SHOULD END BY DAYTIME MORNING HOURS ON THURSDAY. THUNDERSTORMS WILL END FROM WEST TO EAST THROUGH MIDDAY THURSDAY. DRY CONDITIONS WILL RETURN TO THE FA AS HIGH PRESSURE MOVES INTO THE REGION THURSDAY NIGHT. COOLER AIR WILL WORK INTO THE FA ON THURSDAY AS A COLD FRONT MOVES THROUGH THE AREA. THE HIGHS THURSDAY WILL BE IN THE 70S AND THE LOWS THURSDAY NIGHT WILL BE IN THE 50S. && .LONG TERM /FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY/... HIGH PRESSURE WILL BRING FAIR WEATHER WITH LIGHT WINDS AND SEASONABLY COOL TEMPERATURES ACROSS THE AREA FRIDAY THROUGH SATURDAY MORNING. WENT WITH A BIAS CORRECTED BLEND FOR TEMPERATURES DURING THE FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT PERIODS. THE LOW LEVEL RIDGE SHIFTS EAST OF THE REGION ON SATURDAY RESULTING IN RETURN FLOW WITH INCREASING MOISTURE AND MEAN TEMPERATURES. MID AND UPPER LEVEL FLOW WILL FLATTEN TO A ZONAL PATTERN SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT AS AN UPPER TROUGH AND WEAK SURFACE LOW OVER SOUTH CENTRAL CANADA DIGS SOUTHEAST TOWARD THE GREAT LAKES. DISTURBANCES EMBEDDED IN THIS ZONAL FLOW WILL BRING PERIODIC CHANCES FOR SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TO OUR REGION SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT. NIGHTTIME TEMPERATURES DURING THIS TIME PERIOD WILL BE MILD...WITH CLOUD COVER AND DEWPOINTS IN THE 60S EXPECTED TO BE PRESENT. BY MONDAY MODELS ARE INDICATING THE TROUGH AND SURFACE LOW OVER THE GREAT LAKES WILL LIFT NORTHEASTWARD...WHICH WILL HELP TO DRAG A COLD FRONT ACROSS OUR AREA. THIS WOULD RESULT IN UNSETTLED WEATHER ON MONDAY INTO MONDAY EVENING...FOLLOWED BY A DRYING TREND MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY. && .AVIATION /02Z THURSDAY THROUGH MONDAY/... TAF SITES WILL BE IMPACTED BY SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TONIGHT AS VIGOROUS LOW PRESSURE MOVES TO NORTHERN OHIO. A VERY HUMID AIRMASS AND INCREASING WIND FIELDS WILL CONTRIBUTE TO THUNDERSTORM FORMATION. THUNDERSTORMS CELLS MERGING INTO A LINE SHOULD REACH TAF SITES FROM AROUND 04Z TO 07Z. WILL MONITOR RADAR AND UPSTREAM OBS AND WILL INCREASE WIND GUSTS TO ABOVE THE 45 KNOTS CURRENTLY IN THE FORECAST IF NECESSARY. IFR VISIBILITIES AND MVFR CEILINGS ARE EXPECTED WITH THE THUNDERSTORMS. ONCE THE THUNDERSTORMS MOVE EAST EARLY THURSDAY...MVFR CEILINGS WILL PERSIST FOR A FEW HOURS NEAR A TRAILING COLD FRONT BEFORE CEILINGS RISE AHEAD OF HIGH PRESSURE AND DRIER AIR ARRIVING FROM THE NORTH. OUTLOOK...ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE SUNDAY. && .ILN WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... OH...NONE. KY...NONE. IN...NONE. && SYNOPSIS...PARKER NEAR TERM...PARKER SHORT TERM...PARKER LONG TERM...LATTO AVIATION...CONIGLIO
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 13, 12:12 AM EDT, 40 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 1212 AM EDT THU JUN 13 2013 INZ050-058-059-066-OHZ026-034-035-042>046-051>056-060>065-070>074- 077>082-088-140415- WAYNE-FAYETTE IN-UNION IN-FRANKLIN IN-HARDIN-MERCER-AUGLAIZE-DARKE- SHELBY-LOGAN-UNION OH-DELAWARE-MIAMI-CHAMPAIGN-CLARK-MADISON- FRANKLIN OH-LICKING-PREBLE-MONTGOMERY-GREENE-FAYETTE OH-PICKAWAY- FAIRFIELD-BUTLER-WARREN-CLINTON-ROSS-HOCKING-HAMILTON-CLERMONT-BROWN- HIGHLAND-ADAMS-PIKE-SCIOTO- 1212 AM EDT THU JUN 13 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EAST CENTRAL INDIANA...SOUTHEAST INDIANA...CENTRAL OHIO...MIAMI VALLEY OF OHIO...SOUTH CENTRAL OHIO...SOUTHWEST OHIO AND WEST CENTRAL OHIO. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. A SIGNIFICANT SEVERE WEATHER EVENT WILL BE POSSIBLE FOR THE OVERNIGHT HOURS. A COMPLEX OF STORMS HAS DEVELOPED AND WILL MOVE THROUGH THE REGION OVERNIGHT. DAMAGING WINDS WILL BE LIKELY WITH THIS SYSTEM AS IT MOVES THROUGH THE AREA. DAMAGING WINDS WILL BE THE PRIMARY THREAT HOWEVER ISOLATED LARGE HAIL AND ISOLATED TORNADOS CANNOT BE RULED OUT. SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE HEAVY RAINFALL AND LEAD TO LOCALIZED FLASH FLOODING ISSUES. THE SEVERE THREAT WILL TAPER DOWN ACROSS THE AREA BY THE DAYTIME MORNING HOURS ON THURSDAY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS SHOULD REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS. INZ073>075-080-KYZ089>100-140415- RIPLEY-DEARBORN-OHIO-SWITZERLAND-CARROLL-GALLATIN-BOONE-KENTON- CAMPBELL-OWEN-GRANT-PENDLETON-BRACKEN-ROBERTSON-MASON-LEWIS- 1212 AM EDT THU JUN 13 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST INDIANA...NORTHEAST KENTUCKY AND NORTHERN KENTUCKY. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. A COMPLEX OF STORMS WILL MOVE THROUGH THE REGION DURING THE OVERNIGHT HOURS HOWEVER THERE IS STILL SOME QUESTION ON THE SOUTHERN EXTENT OF THIS FEATURE. IF THE FEATURE MAKES IT FURTHER SOUTH INTO THE AREA THEN DAMAGING WINDS WOULD BE THE PRIMARY THREAT. IN ADDITION SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE HEAVY RAINFALL AND LEAD TO LOCALIZED FLASH FLOODING ISSUES. THE SEVERE THREAT WILL TAPER DOWN ACROSS THE AREA BY THE DAYTIME MORNING HOURS ON THURSDAY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED OVERNIGHT.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 12, 11:59 PM EDT, 53 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
1159 PM EDT WED JUN 12 2013
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
1157 PM TSTM WND GST 5 NW ST. MARYS 40.60N 84.44W
06/12/2013 M60 MPH AUGLAIZE OH EMERGENCY MNGR
&&
SNYDERLocal storm report, Jun 13, 12:23 AM EDT, 29 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
1223 AM EDT THU JUN 13 2013
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
1201 AM TSTM WND GST 3 SW ST. MARYS 40.51N 84.43W
06/13/2013 M63 MPH AUGLAIZE OH MESONET
&&
SNYDERLocal storm report, Jun 13, 12:26 AM EDT, 26 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Wilmington, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Jun 12, 8:25 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILN | Delaware | 20 min |
| Jun 12, 8:29 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILN | Delaware | 31 min |
| Jun 12, 8:49 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILN | Hardin | 26 min |
| Jun 12, 9:22 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILN | Hardin | 23 min |
| Jun 12, 9:52 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILN | Licking | 23 min |
| Jun 12, 10:58 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILN | Auglaize, Darke, Hardin, Mercer, Miami, Shelby | 47 min |
| Jun 12, 11:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Auglaize, Mercer | 45 min |
| Jun 12, 11:34 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILN | Auglaize, Darke, Hardin, Logan, Shelby | 86 min |
| Jun 12, 11:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Auglaize, Champaign, Darke, Logan, Mercer, Miami and 1 more | 38 min |
| Jun 13, 12:13 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Auglaize, Hardin, Logan, Union | 47 min |
| Jun 13, 12:25 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Auglaize, Champaign, Clark, Darke, Logan, Mercer and 3 more | 50 min |
| Jun 13, 12:51 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILN | Delaware, Union | 39 min |
| Jun 13, 1:04 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILN | Champaign, Clark, Greene, Madison, Miami, Montgomery and 1 more | 41 min |
| Jun 13, 1:08 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILN | Delaware, Union | 37 min |
| Jun 13, 1:20 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ILN | Darke, Miami, Shelby | 3 hr |
| Jun 13, 1:26 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Delaware, Fairfield, Franklin, Licking, Madison | 64 min |
| Jun 13, 1:49 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILN | Butler, Clinton, Fairfield, Fayette, Pickaway, Warren | 56 min |
| Jun 13, 1:54 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILN | Greene, Montgomery | 51 min |
| Jun 13, 2:37 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILN | Hocking | 38 min |
| Jun 13, 3:13 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILN | Clinton, Fayette, Greene, Pickaway | 47 min |
| Jun 13, 3:55 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ILN | Clinton, Fayette, Highland, Hocking, Pickaway, Ross | 5 hr |
| Jun 13, 7:49 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILN | Preble | 41 min |
| Jun 13, 8:04 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Butler, Montgomery, Preble | 41 min |
| Jun 13, 8:09 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Butler, Hamilton | 51 min |
| Jun 13, 8:23 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Butler, Clinton, Greene, Montgomery, Warren | 67 min |
| Jun 13, 8:25 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Clermont, Hamilton | 65 min |
| Jun 13, 8:42 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILN | Clinton | 33 min |
| Jun 13, 8:50 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Brown, Butler, Clermont, Clinton, Hamilton, Highland and 1 more | 55 min |
| Jun 13, 8:57 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILN | Clinton, Fayette, Ross | 33 min |
| Jun 13, 9:15 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILN | Brown, Clermont | 45 min |
| Jun 13, 9:19 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILN | Highland | 26 min |
| Jun 13, 9:32 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Highland, Pike, Ross | 28 min |
| Jun 13, 9:37 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILN | Ross | 38 min |
| Jun 13, 9:38 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILN | Highland | 37 min |
| Jun 13, 9:49 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILN | Adams, Brown | 56 min |
| Jun 13, 9:54 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ILN | Brown, Clinton, Fayette, Highland, Pickaway, Pike and 1 more | 3 hr |
| Jun 13, 9:57 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILN | Pike | 33 min |
| Jun 13, 10:01 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILN | Pike, Scioto | 29 min |
| Jun 13, 10:38 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILN | Scioto | 37 min |
| Jun 13, 9:00 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILN | Carroll, Gallatin, Grant, Owen | 45 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.