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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 74, NWS Wilmington, OH

June 27, 2013Fayette County, Franklin County, Ripley County, Indiana

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 27, 2013, 7:56 PM EDT for Fayette County, Franklin County, Ripley County, Indiana. It was in force for 49 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 27, 2013, 7:56 PM EDT (23:56 UTC)
Expired: Jun 27, 2013, 8:45 PM EDT
In force: 49 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, OH
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Fayette County, IN, Franklin County, IN, Ripley County, IN

The radar

The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:57 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 118 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: 109 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -23 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 471 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 102 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 155 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 27, 5:29 PM EDT, 2 hours 27 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 27, 5:29 PM EDT, 2 hours 27 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 27, 4:14 AM EDT, 15 hours 42 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
414 AM EDT THU JUN 27 2013

INZ050-058-059-066-073>075-080-KYZ089>100-OHZ026-034-035-042>046-
051>056-060>065-070>074-077>082-088-280815-
WAYNE-FAYETTE IN-UNION IN-FRANKLIN IN-RIPLEY-DEARBORN-OHIO-
SWITZERLAND-CARROLL-GALLATIN-BOONE-KENTON-CAMPBELL-OWEN-GRANT-
PENDLETON-BRACKEN-ROBERTSON-MASON-LEWIS-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-
414 AM EDT THU JUN 27 2013

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

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT.

SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP ACROSS THE REGION
THIS AFTERNOON. WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED.
HOWEVER...THERE IS A CHANCE THAT A FEW STORMS COULD BECOME STRONG
TO SEVERE...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY.

THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

HATZOS

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 27, 2:54 PM EDT, 5 hours 2 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
254 PM EDT THU JUN 27 2013

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0700 AM     HEAVY RAIN       RIBOLT                  38.57N 83.52W
06/27/2013  M2.54 INCH       LEWIS              KY   TRAINED SPOTTER

&&

SNYDER

Special weather statement, Jun 27, 6:36 PM EDT, 1 hour 20 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
636 PM EDT THU JUN 27 2013

OHZ044-272300-
LOGAN OH-
636 PM EDT THU JUN 27 2013

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT LOGAN COUNTY THROUGH 700 PM
EDT...

AT 633 PM EDT...RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR
LAKEVIEW...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

STORM HAZARDS INCLUDE...
WINDS TO 40 MPH...
PENNY SIZE HAIL...

SOME LOCATIONS THAT MAY BE AFFECTED INCLUDE...RUSSELLS POINT...BELLE
CENTER AND BELLEFONTAINE.

ALSO...LEWISTOWN...MCMORRAN...HUNTSVILLE...NORTHWOOD...NEW
JERUSALEM...ZANESFIELD AND RUSHSYLVANIA ARE NEAR THE PATH OF THIS
STRONG THUNDERSTORM.

LAT...LON 4053 8388 4053 8385 4047 8353 4028 8372
      4048 8400 4050 8400 4054 8396 4054 8389

Special weather statement, Jun 27, 7:28 PM EDT, 28 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
728 PM EDT THU JUN 27 2013

INZ058-066-280015-
FRANKLIN IN-FAYETTE IN-
728 PM EDT THU JUN 27 2013

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT SOUTHWESTERN FAYETTE AND WESTERN
FRANKLIN COUNTIES THROUGH 815 PM EDT...

AT 726 PM EDT...RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 13 MILES
NORTHWEST OF GLENWOOD...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 45 MPH.

STORM HAZARDS INCLUDE...
WINDS TO 50 MPH...
NICKEL SIZE HAIL...

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

ALSO...GLENWOOD...BUNKER HILL...COLUMBIA...NULLTOWN...ALPINE...
ANDERSONVILLE...EVERTON...LAUREL...BUENA VISTA AND BLOOMING GROVE ARE
NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STRONG THUNDERSTORM.

LAT...LON 3979 8530 3953 8503 3933 8510 3931 8517
      3931 8522 3929 8528 3932 8531

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 27, 6:36 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Logan	24 min
Jun 27, 6:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Logan	49 min
Jun 26, 8:26 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILN	Carroll, Gallatin	2 hr
Jun 26, 9:21 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILN	Carroll, Gallatin, Grant, Owen, Pendleton	5 hr
Jun 26, 10:22 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILN	Grant, Owen	3 hr
Jun 26, 10:38 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILN	Boone, Carroll, Gallatin	3 hr
Jun 26, 10:42 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILN	Mason, Robertson	3 hr
Jun 26, 11:10 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILN	Lewis	3 hr
Jun 26, 8:14 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILN	Dearborn, Ohio, Ripley	3 hr
Jun 27, 7:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Fayette	47 min

Nearby

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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.