Alert archive / Ohio / Special Weather Statements in 2013

Special Weather Statement, NWS Wilmington, OH

August 7, 2013Pike County, Ohio

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this special weather statement at Aug 7, 2013, 4:21 PM EDT for Pike County, 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 outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Aug 7, 2013, 4:21 PM EDT (20:21 UTC)
Expired
Aug 7, 2013, 5:00 PM EDT
In force
39 min
Issued by
NWS Wilmington, OH

County Pike County, OH

The radar

The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:21 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, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 72 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 2013-08-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1584 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 2013-08-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 53 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1584 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
472 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
53 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
56 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.7

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

373 
WWUS81 KILN 072021
SPSILN

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
421 PM EDT WED AUG 7 2013

OHZ081-082-088-072100-
ADAMS OH-PIKE OH-SCIOTO OH-
421 PM EDT WED AUG 7 2013

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT NORTHWESTERN SCIOTO...PIKE AND
NORTHEASTERN ADAMS COUNTIES THROUGH 500 PM EDT...

AT 418 PM EDT...RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR RARDEN...
MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

STORM HAZARDS INCLUDE...
WINDS TO 40 MPH...
FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...
VERY HEAVY RAIN...

SOME LOCATIONS THAT MAY BE AFFECTED INCLUDE...WAVERLY AND PIKETON.

ALSO...OTWAY...MOUNT JOY...LADD...ELM GROVE...BEAR CREEK... 
IDAHO...WAKEFIELD...GERMANY AND GIVENS ARE NEAR THE PATH OF THIS 
STRONG THUNDERSTORM.

DO NOT STAY IN THE OPEN NOR SEEK SHELTER UNDER TREES WHEN LIGHTNING
THREATENS. MOVE INDOORS WHEN A THUNDERSTORM APPROACHES. WATER WILL
POND ON ROADS AND MAY QUICKLY FILL ROADSIDE DITCHES AND SMALL
STREAMS.

LAT...LON 3897 8342 3918 8301 3918 8294 3899 8280
      3881 8331

$$

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Ohio, 2013Every special weather statement 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.