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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 108, NWS Wilmington, OH

June 23, 2014Grant County, Owen County, Kentucky

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 23, 2014, 8:31 PM EDT for Grant County, Owen County, Kentucky. It was in force for 29 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 23, 2014, 8:31 PM EDT (00:31 UTC)
Expired: Jun 23, 2014, 9:00 PM EDT
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, OH
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Grant County, KY, Owen County, KY

The radar

The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 121 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:32 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, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 123 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: 407 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -11 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1771 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 25 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 64 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.2

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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 23, 7:56 PM EDT, 35 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 23, 7:56 PM EDT, 35 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 23, 12:51 PM EDT, 7 hours 40 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
1251 PM EDT MON JUN 23 2014

INZ050-058-059-066-073>075-080-KYZ089>100-OHZ026-034-035-042>046-
051>056-060>065-070>074-077>082-088-241700-
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-
1251 PM EDT MON JUN 23 2014

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...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.

SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE PRESENT ACROSS THE
AREA THIS AFTERNOON INTO TONIGHT. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY REACH
STRONG TO SEVERE LIMITS THIS AFTERNOON INTO EARLY THIS EVENING.
THE PRIMARY THREAT WOULD BE DAMAGING WINDS. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL
AND HAIL WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY.

SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TUESDAY INTO TUESDAY EVENING
AS A COLD FRONT MOVES EAST ACROSS THE AREA. A FEW OF THE STORMS
MAY BECOME SEVERE TUESDAY AFTERNOON WITH DAMAGING WINDS BEING THE
PRIMARY THREAT. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 23, 7:32 PM EDT, 59 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
732 PM EDT MON JUN 23 2014

OHZ061-070-071-240000-
BUTLER OH-MONTGOMERY OH-WARREN OH-
732 PM EDT MON JUN 23 2014

...A RAPIDLY DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT NORTHWESTERN
WARREN...SOUTHEASTERN MONTGOMERY AND SOUTHEASTERN BUTLER COUNTIES
THROUGH 800 PM EDT...

AT 730 PM EDT...RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM NEAR MONROE...MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

STORM HAZARDS INCLUDE...
WINDS TO 40 MPH...
PEA SIZE HAIL...
VERY HEAVY RAIN...

SOME LOCATIONS THAT MAY BE AFFECTED INCLUDE...LEBANON...FRANKLIN...
SPRINGBORO AND MIAMISBURG.

ALSO...PEKIN AND LYTLE ARE NEAR THE PATH OF THIS RAPIDLY DEVELOPING
THUNDERSTORM.

WATER WILL POND ON ROADS AND MAY QUICKLY FILL ROADSIDE DITCHES AND
SMALL STREAMS.

LAT...LON 3966 8426 3959 8411 3958 8411 3958 8409
      3957 8408 3929 8434 3929 8435 3929 8439
      3933 8448

Special weather statement, Jun 23, 7:35 PM EDT, 56 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 23, 7:53 PM EDT, 38 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 23, 8:10 PM EDT, 21 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 23, 8:14 PM EDT, 17 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 23, 8:18 PM EDT, 13 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 23, 8:10 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Warren	35 min
Jun 23, 8:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Union	27 min
Jun 23, 8:27 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILN	Greene, Montgomery, Warren	3 hr
Jun 23, 8:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Greene, Montgomery	32 min
Jun 23, 9:59 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILN	Delaware, Licking	3 hr
Jun 23, 10:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Franklin	28 min
Jun 23, 10:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Delaware, Fairfield, Franklin, Licking	48 min
Jun 23, 11:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Licking	60 min
Jun 24, 2:08 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Warren	37 min
Jun 24, 4:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Franklin	43 min
Jun 24, 4:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Fairfield	38 min
Jun 24, 4:50 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILN	Delaware, Franklin, Licking	3 hr
Jun 24, 4:57 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Licking	33 min
Jun 24, 5:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Delaware	28 min
Jun 24, 5:06 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Auglaize	24 min
Jun 24, 5:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Butler	41 min
Jun 24, 5:20 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Licking	40 min
Jun 24, 5:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Montgomery, Preble	42 min
Jun 24, 5:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Auglaize, Shelby	36 min
Jun 24, 6:11 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Miami	34 min
Jun 24, 6:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Hamilton	30 min
Jun 24, 6:28 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILN	Franklin	3 hr
Jun 24, 6:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Champaign, Clark, Madison	36 min
Jun 24, 6:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Warren	34 min
Jun 24, 6:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Champaign, Logan, Union	42 min
Jun 24, 7:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Union	30 min
Jun 24, 7:24 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Union	51 min
Jun 24, 7:51 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Delaware	24 min
Jun 24, 4:21 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Union, Wayne	24 min
Jun 24, 4:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Wayne	37 min
Jun 24, 7:49 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Switzerland	26 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kentucky, 2014 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2014

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.