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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 153, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 2, 2014, 4:42 PM EDT for Bracken County, Mason County, Robertson County, Kentucky. It was in force for 33 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
- Aug 2, 2014, 4:42 PM EDT (20:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 2, 2014, 5:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Bracken County, KY, Mason County, KY, Robertson County, KY
The radar
The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:44 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 94 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 680 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -58 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 999 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -4 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 57 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
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 Aug 2, 4:25 PM EDT, 17 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 2, 4:25 PM EDT, 17 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 500 AM EDT SAT AUG 2 2014 INZ050-058-059-066-073>075-080-KYZ089>100-OHZ026-034-035-042>046- 051>056-060>065-070>074-077>082-088-030900- 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- 500 AM EDT SAT AUG 2 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...TODAY AND TONIGHT. SOME THUNDERSTORMS TODAY INTO THIS EVENING MAY BECOME VERY SLOW MOVING. THIS COULD RESULT IN LOCALIZED HEAVY RAINFALL AND FLOODING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 2, 1:36 PM EDT, 3 hours 6 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 136 PM EDT SAT AUG 2 2014 OHZ081-021800- ADAMS OH- 136 PM EDT SAT AUG 2 2014 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT SOUTHEASTERN ADAMS COUNTY THROUGH 200 PM EDT... AT 133 PM EDT...RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR BLUE CREEK...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. STORM HAZARDS INCLUDE... WINDS TO 40 MPH... ONE HALF INCH DIAMETER HAIL... VERY HEAVY RAIN... THE STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF SOUTHEASTERN ADAMS COUNTY...INCLUDING BLUE CREEK AND WAMSLEY. WATER WILL POND ON ROADS AND MAY QUICKLY FILL ROADSIDE DITCHES AND SMALL STREAMS. LAT...LON 3883 8327 3862 8327 3872 8348 3883 8341 SNYDER
Local storm report, Aug 2, 2:38 PM EDT, 2 hours 4 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Wilmington, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 1, 9:30 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ILN | Darke, Mercer | 2 hr |
| Aug 1, 10:28 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILN | Mercer | 32 min |
| Aug 1, 10:37 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ILN | Butler, Hamilton | 113 min |
| Aug 1, 10:42 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ILN | Auglaize, Mercer | 2 hr |
| Aug 2, 2:31 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ILN | Mercer | 5 hr |
| Aug 2, 3:37 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ILN | Auglaize | 3 hr |
| Aug 2, 12:43 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ILN | Franklin | 92 min |
| Aug 2, 12:52 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILN | Ross | 23 min |
| Aug 2, 1:11 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ILN | Ross | 94 min |
| Aug 2, 1:28 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILN | Pike, Ross | 47 min |
| Aug 2, 1:36 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILN | Adams | 24 min |
| Aug 2, 1:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Ross | 27 min |
| Aug 2, 2:52 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILN | Hocking | 38 min |
| Aug 2, 4:04 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILN | Brown | 26 min |
| Aug 2, 4:59 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ILN | Brown, Clermont | 2 hr |
| Aug 2, 4:38 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILN | Bracken, Mason, Pendleton | 22 min |
| Aug 2, 4:40 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILN | Mason | 35 min |
| Aug 2, 5:11 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILN | Robertson | 34 min |
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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.