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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 132, NWS Wilmington, OH

July 14, 2014Darke County, Miami County, Ohio

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 14, 2014, 6:40 PM EDT for Darke County, Miami County, Ohio. It was in force for 35 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: Jul 14, 2014, 6:40 PM EDT (22:40 UTC)
Expired: Jul 14, 2014, 7:15 PM EDT
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, OH
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Darke County, OH, Miami County, OH

The radar

The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:40 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
Jul 14, 6:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	3 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 91 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: 212 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -51 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 695 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 52 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 45 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 Jul 14, 3:08 PM EDT, 3 hours 32 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 14, 3:08 PM EDT, 3 hours 32 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 14, 6:34 PM EDT, 6 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 14, 5:46 PM EDT, 54 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 14, 6:14 PM EDT, 26 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 14, 6:24 PM EDT, 16 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
Jul 13, 8:21 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILN	Fairfield, Hocking	3 hr
Jul 13, 8:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Scioto	25 min
Jul 14, 7:14 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILN	Clermont, Clinton, Fayette, Greene, Hamilton, Highland and 1 more	3 hr
Jul 14, 7:56 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILN	Franklin, Madison, Pickaway, Ross	3 hr
Jul 14, 8:09 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILN	Fairfield, Licking	3 hr
Jul 14, 6:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Darke, Miami	31 min
Jul 14, 6:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Preble	31 min
Jul 14, 6:51 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILN	Darke, Miami, Shelby	114 min
Jul 14, 7:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Clark, Montgomery, Preble	28 min
Jul 14, 7:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Champaign	25 min
Jul 14, 7:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Champaign	46 min
Jul 14, 7:16 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILN	Champaign, Logan, Shelby, Union	119 min
Jul 14, 7:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Butler, Clermont, Hamilton, Warren	44 min
Jul 14, 7:26 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Logan, Union	34 min
Jul 14, 7:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Clark, Clinton, Greene, Madison, Montgomery	47 min
Jul 14, 7:30 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILN	Delaware	2 hr
Jul 13, 9:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Carroll, Gallatin	30 min
Jul 13, 10:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Campbell, Kenton	35 min
Jul 14, 5:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Wayne	29 min
Jul 14, 6:24 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Fayette, Franklin, Union	36 min
Jul 14, 6:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Franklin, Union	32 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.