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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 72, NWS Wilmington, OH

June 26, 2013Brown County, Clermont County, Highland County, Ohio; Campbell County, Kentucky

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 26, 2013, 5:09 PM EDT for Brown County, Clermont County, Highland County, Ohio; Campbell County, Kentucky. It was in force for 51 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 26, 2013, 5:09 PM EDT (21:09 UTC)
Expired: Jun 26, 2013, 6:00 PM EDT
In force: 51 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, OH
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Campbell County, KY, Brown County, OH, Clermont County, OH, Highland County, OH

The radar

The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:11 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 26, 3:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	9 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 48 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: 19 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -204 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 894 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 61 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 90 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 26, 4:18 PM EDT, 51 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 26, 4:18 PM EDT, 51 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 26, 3:41 PM EDT, 1 hour 28 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
341 PM EDT WED JUN 26 2013

INZ050-058-059-066-073>075-080-KYZ089>100-OHZ042-051>056-060>065-
070>074-077>082-088-271945-
WAYNE-FAYETTE IN-UNION IN-FRANKLIN IN-RIPLEY-DEARBORN-OHIO-
SWITZERLAND-CARROLL-GALLATIN-BOONE-KENTON-CAMPBELL-OWEN-GRANT-
PENDLETON-BRACKEN-ROBERTSON-MASON-LEWIS-DARKE-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-
341 PM EDT WED JUN 26 2013

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 374 IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT EDT
TONIGHT...
...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT...

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

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.

PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE
INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS.

   SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH.
   FLASH FLOOD WATCH.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY.

THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NEEDED TONIGHT.

OHZ026-034-035-043>046-271945-
HARDIN-MERCER-AUGLAIZE-SHELBY-LOGAN-UNION OH-DELAWARE-
341 PM EDT WED JUN 26 2013

...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT...

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

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.

PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE
INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS.

   FLASH FLOOD WATCH.

SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP THROUGH THE AFTERNOON. THERE
IS SOME QUESTION HOW MUCH INSTABILITY WILL DEVELOP. BUT IT APPEARS
THAT IT WILL BE SUFFICIENT FOR SOME STRONG TO POSSIBLY SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS WILL BE THE PRIMARY
THREAT. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL INCREASE IN COVERAGE
OVERNIGHT. A FEW STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS WILL STILL BE POSSIBLE
INTO THE EVENING. IN ADDITION...LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL BE
POSSIBLE.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY.

THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 26, 4:23 PM EDT, 46 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 26, 4:45 PM EDT, 24 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 26, 4:48 PM EDT, 21 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 26, 5:02 PM EDT, 7 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
Jun 25, 11:38 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Champaign	37 min
Jun 25, 11:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Darke, Mercer	62 min
Jun 26, 12:09 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Hardin	36 min
Jun 26, 12:14 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Butler, Preble	46 min
Jun 26, 12:25 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Auglaize, Darke, Mercer, Miami, Shelby	50 min
Jun 26, 12:28 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Delaware, Union	32 min
Jun 26, 12:40 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Logan	35 min
Jun 26, 12:48 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Hardin, Logan, Union	27 min
Jun 26, 12:55 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Union	50 min
Jun 26, 12:58 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Delaware	47 min
Jun 26, 1:14 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Logan	46 min
Jun 26, 1:15 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILN	Champaign, Hardin, Logan, Union	3 hr
Jun 26, 1:21 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Montgomery	39 min
Jun 26, 1:28 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Greene, Montgomery, Warren	47 min
Jun 26, 1:35 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Delaware	40 min
Jun 26, 1:44 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Clinton, Warren	46 min
Jun 26, 1:53 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Clinton, Warren	52 min
Jun 26, 2:10 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Clark	35 min
Jun 26, 2:23 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Clinton, Fayette	37 min
Jun 26, 2:44 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Franklin	31 min
Jun 26, 11:29 AM EDT	Flash Flood Watch	ILN	Adams, Auglaize, Brown, Butler, Champaign, Clark and 26 more	16 hr
Jun 26, 2:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Darke, Preble	46 min
Jun 26, 3:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Montgomery	36 min
Jun 26, 3:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Miami	48 min
Jun 26, 4:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Greene	37 min
Jun 26, 4:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Hardin	33 min
Jun 26, 4:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Clark, Greene, Madison	44 min
Jun 26, 4:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Clark	23 min
Jun 26, 5:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Brown, Clermont, Hamilton, Warren	45 min
Jun 26, 5:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Madison	33 min
Jun 26, 5:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Hardin	31 min
Jun 26, 5:34 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Warren	26 min
Jun 26, 5:40 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Madison	35 min
Jun 26, 5:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Brown	28 min
Jun 26, 5:57 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Clinton	33 min
Jun 26, 6:11 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILN	Clermont	2 hr
Jun 26, 6:11 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Adams	34 min
Jun 26, 6:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Pickaway	31 min
Jun 26, 6:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Darke	35 min
Jun 26, 6:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Fayette, Greene	31 min
Jun 26, 6:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Fairfield, Licking	30 min
Jun 26, 6:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Pike	29 min
Jun 26, 7:10 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Pike, Scioto	35 min
Jun 26, 7:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Fairfield, Licking	32 min
Jun 26, 7:21 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Ross	24 min
Jun 26, 7:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Fairfield, Licking	30 min
Jun 26, 7:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Pike, Ross, Scioto	28 min
Jun 26, 1:37 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Boone, Kenton	38 min
Jun 26, 2:13 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Kenton	32 min
Jun 26, 3:51 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Boone, Campbell, Grant, Kenton, Owen, Pendleton	39 min
Jun 26, 3:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Boone, Carroll, Gallatin, Grant, Owen	49 min
Jun 26, 4:42 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILN	Boone, Gallatin	2 hr
Jun 26, 4:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Campbell, Kenton	30 min
Jun 26, 5:20 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILN	Boone, Campbell, Gallatin, Kenton	115 min
Jun 26, 12:31 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Dearborn, Ripley	44 min
Jun 26, 2:37 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Ripley	38 min
Jun 26, 3:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Dearborn	33 min
Jun 26, 6:50 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILN	Ripley	115 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Ohio, 2013 Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kentucky, 2013 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2013

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.