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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 75, NWS Wilmington, OH

June 27, 20134 counties in Ohio

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 27, 2013, 10:06 PM EDT for 4 counties in Ohio. It was in force for 39 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, 10:06 PM EDT (02:06 UTC)
Expired: Jun 27, 2013, 10:45 PM EDT
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, OH
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Darke County, OH, Mercer County, OH, Miami County, OH, Shelby County, OH

The radar

The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:07 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, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 107 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: 1578 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -4 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1087 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 68 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 82 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.4
Supercell composite: 2.1

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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, 9:33 PM EDT, 33 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 27, 9:33 PM EDT, 33 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 27, 8:08 PM EDT, 1 hour 58 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 27, 7:28 PM EDT, 2 hours 38 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

Special weather statement, Jun 27, 8:40 PM EDT, 1 hour 26 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 27, 9:09 PM EDT, 57 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 27, 9:27 PM EDT, 39 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 27, 9:39 PM EDT, 27 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 27, 9:47 PM EDT, 19 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 27, 9:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Licking	33 min
Jun 27, 9:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Mercer	36 min
Jun 27, 10:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Miami	47 min
Jun 28, 1:10 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Clinton	50 min
Jun 28, 2:40 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Pike, Ross	50 min
Jun 28, 12:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Clark, Madison	33 min
Jun 28, 12:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Licking	22 min
Jun 28, 12:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Franklin, Madison	32 min
Jun 28, 12:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Franklin, Madison	31 min
Jun 28, 1:06 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Pickaway	24 min
Jun 28, 1:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Delaware	28 min
Jun 28, 1:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Hocking	27 min
Jun 28, 1:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Licking	29 min
Jun 28, 2:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Hocking	14 min
Jun 28, 2:11 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Licking	34 min
Jun 28, 2:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Hocking	29 min
Jun 28, 3:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Darke	50 min
Jun 28, 3:54 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Miami	51 min
Jun 28, 4:09 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Montgomery, Preble	51 min
Jun 28, 4:21 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Clark	39 min
Jun 28, 4:22 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Union	23 min
Jun 28, 4:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Delaware	31 min
Jun 28, 4:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Clinton, Greene, Warren	40 min
Jun 28, 4:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Champaign, Clark, Madison	47 min
Jun 28, 5:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Butler, Hamilton	47 min
Jun 28, 5:54 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Pickaway	51 min
Jun 28, 6:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Hocking	19 min
Jun 27, 8:40 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Dearborn	35 min
Jun 28, 6:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Ohio	31 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.