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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 154, NWS Wilmington, OH

August 12, 2014Licking County, Ohio

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 12, 2014, 11:57 AM EDT for Licking County, Ohio. It was in force for 18 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 12, 2014, 11:57 AM EDT (15:57 UTC)
Expired
Aug 12, 2014, 12:15 PM EDT
In force
18 min
Issued by
NWS Wilmington, OH
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
0.75 in
Wind
60.0 mph

County Licking County, OH

The radar

The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 137 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:57 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, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 135 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 2014-08-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 326 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 2014-08-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 66 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
326 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-24 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
797 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
66 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
96 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
1.1

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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 Aug 12, 9:26 AM EDT, 2 hours 31 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 12, 9:26 AM EDT, 2 hours 31 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
926 AM EDT TUE AUG 12 2014

.SYNOPSIS...
A COLD FRONT AND UPPER LEVEL TROUGH WILL CROSS THE REGION TODAY.
HIGH PRESSURE WILL BUILD IN THE UPPER MIDWEST ON WEDNESDAY AND THEN
SETTLE OVER THE OHIO VALLEY THURSDAY NIGHT.

&&

.NEAR TERM /UNTIL 6 PM THIS EVENING/...
A COLD FRONT IS PUSHING EAST ACROSS WESTERN OHIO THIS MORNING AND A
NARROW LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAS DEVELOPED JUST AHEAD
OF IT ACROSS CENTRAL OHIO. AS WE PROGRESS INTO THIS AFTERNOON...THE
BETTER INSTABILITY AND SHEAR WILL BE JUST OFF TO OUR EAST. THE
LATEST HRRR SEEMS TO HAVE A GOOD HANDLE ON THE CURRENT SITUATION...WITH
THE CURRENT LINE OF STORMS INTENSIFYING AS IT PUSHES EAST OF OUR
AREA INTO THE MORE FAVORABLE AIRMASS LATER THIS MORNING INTO
EARLY AFTERNOON. MEANWHILE...EXPECT SCATTERED SHOWERS AND
ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS TO SPREAD BACK IN FROM THE NORTHWEST
THROUGH THE AFTERNOON HOURS AS THE UPPER LEVEL TROUGH AXIS PIVOTS
INTO THE AREA. THIS WILL LIKELY BE DIURNALLY ENHANCED SO EXPECT
HIGHEST POPS WITH THIS ACROSS OUR NORTHWEST...DECREASING OFF TO
THE SOUTHEAST THROUGH LATE AFTERNOON/EARLY EVENING AS WE START TO
LOSE THE DAYTIME HEATING. EXPECT HIGHS TODAY RANGING FROM THE LOW
TO MID 70S ACROSS THE NORTHWEST TO THE UPPER 70S/NEAR 80 IN THE
FAR SOUTHEAST.
&&

.SHORT TERM /6 PM THIS EVENING THROUGH FRIDAY/...
ANY SEMBLANCE OF SHOWERS SHOULD BE WELL EAST OF THE CWA BY
NIGHTFALL. WNW WINDS AT THE SURFACE WITH HIGH PRESSURE BUILDING IN
THE MIDWEST WILL HELP DRIER AIR TO BE PULLED INTO THE OHIO VALLEY.
NAM AND CANADIAN MODEL ARE SHOWING A POSSIBILITY OF A SPRINKLE
OVER THE REGION IN THE PREDAWN HOURS WED MORNING. IF THIS WERE TO
OCCUR...IT IS PURELY FROM THE COLD POOL OF AIR ALOFT. ATTM...I DO
NOT SEE ENOUGH MOISTURE TO ALLOW THE COLD POOL TO WRING OUT A
SHOWER AND HAVE LEFT THE FORECAST DRY.

ON WEDNESDAY...NORTHWEST WINDS WILL KEEP THE COLD AIR OVER THE
REGION WITH HIGHS STAYING IN THE LOW TO MID 70S. A WEAK BOUNDARY
WILL LINGER NORTH OF KY AND THE REAL COLD PUSH ON NORTHERLY WINDS
WILL POSSIBLY SQUEEZE OUT A SHOWER WNW TO ESE OF METRO CINCY ON
THURSDAY AFTERNOON...SLOWLY PUSHING SOUTH INTO KY BY EVENING. THE
CENTER OF THE HIGH WILL SETTLE OVER THE CWA BY FRIDAY MORNING AND
LOWS THURSDAY NIGHT WILL DROP DOWN INTO THE LOWER 50S ACROSS THE
AREA.

&&

.LONG TERM /FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY/...
NORTHWEST FLOW ALOFT AT THE BEGINNING OF THE PERIOD WILL FLATTEN AND
BECOME MORE ZONAL OVER THE WEEKEND. 12Z MODELS ARE IN REASONABLE
AGREEMENT THAT A SHORT WAVE WILL PUSH INTO THE REGION ON MONDAY. AT
THE SURFACE HIGH PRESSURE WILL DOMINATE LATE IN THE WEEK BEFORE
SLIDING OFF TO THE SOUTHEAST DURING THE WEEKEND. CANNOT COMPLETELY
RULE OUT SOME STORMS ACROSS THE NORTHERN COUNTIES OVER THE WEEKEND
ON THE SOUTHERN FRINGE OF A MORE ACTIVE CONVECTIVE CORRIDOR ACROSS
THE GREAT LAKES. BUT BETTER CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE
EXPECTED ON MONDAY. TEMPERATURES EARLY IN THE PERIOD WILL BE BELOW
NORMAL BUT THEN WARM TO ABOVE NORMAL EARLY NEXT WEEK.

&&

.AVIATION /13Z TUESDAY THROUGH SATURDAY/...
IFR STRATUS DEVELOPED ACROSS THE ERN TAFS THIS MORNING...ALONG
WITH MVFR FOG AT MOST LOCATIONS. NOW A SFC TROF THAT SHIFTS THE
WINDS TO THE W IS PUSHING THRU INDIANA. AHEAD OF THIS TROF...AN AREA
OF AC IS DEVELOPING...BUT THEN ADDITIONAL MVFR STRATUS HAS DEVELOP
ACROSS INDIANA.

MEANWHILE A VIGOROUS H5 S/W WILL DIG INTO THE REGION THIS
AFTN...PROVIDING LIFT FOR CONVECTION. EXPECT THE STRATUS TO AFFECT
THE REGION THRU 14-15Z...THEN THE AIRMASS WILL
DESTABILIZE....ESPECIALLY OVER THE ERN TAFS. CONVECTION ALLOWING
MODELS DEVELOP PCPN ACROSS THE ERN TAFS LATE THIS MORNING...BUT
LEAVE THE W DRY. FOLLOWED THIS SCENARIO BY PUTTING VCTS IN THE
ERN TAFS FROM 15-18Z. AS THE UPPER TROF APPROACHES THIS AFTN A FEW
SHRA COULD AFFECT THE WRN TAFS IN THE AFTN.

THE H5 TROF S/W WILL WORK E AFT 00Z. THIS SHOULD BRING AN END TO
THE SHOWER/THUNDERSTORM THREAT. MVFR STRATUS COULD REDEVELOP AFT
06Z TONIGHT.

OUTLOOK...NO SIGNIFICANT WEATHER EXPECTED.

&&

.ILN WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
OH...NONE.
KY...NONE.
IN...NONE.

&&

SYNOPSIS...FRANKS
NEAR TERM...JGL
SHORT TERM...FRANKS
LONG TERM...
AVIATION...SITES
Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 12, 10:21 AM EDT, 1 hour 36 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
1021 AM EDT TUE AUG 12 2014

INZ050-058-059-066-073>075-080-KYZ089>096-OHZ026-034-035-042>045-
051>054-060>063-070>072-077-078-131430-
WAYNE-FAYETTE IN-UNION IN-FRANKLIN IN-RIPLEY-DEARBORN-OHIO-
SWITZERLAND-CARROLL-GALLATIN-BOONE-KENTON-CAMPBELL-OWEN-GRANT-
PENDLETON-HARDIN-MERCER-AUGLAIZE-DARKE-SHELBY-LOGAN-UNION OH-MIAMI-
CHAMPAIGN-CLARK-MADISON-PREBLE-MONTGOMERY-GREENE-FAYETTE OH-BUTLER-
WARREN-CLINTON-HAMILTON-CLERMONT-
1021 AM EDT TUE AUG 12 2014

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EAST CENTRAL
INDIANA...SOUTHEAST INDIANA...NORTHERN KENTUCKY...CENTRAL
OHIO...MIAMI VALLEY OF OHIO...SOUTHWEST OHIO AND WEST CENTRAL OHIO.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT.

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY.

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

KYZ097>100-OHZ046-055-056-064-065-073-074-079>082-088-131430-
BRACKEN-ROBERTSON-MASON-LEWIS-DELAWARE-FRANKLIN OH-LICKING-PICKAWAY-
FAIRFIELD-ROSS-HOCKING-BROWN-HIGHLAND-ADAMS-PIKE-SCIOTO-
1021 AM EDT TUE AUG 12 2014

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST KENTUCKY...NORTHERN
KENTUCKY...CENTRAL OHIO AND SOUTH CENTRAL OHIO.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT.

SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS AHEAD OF A COLD FRONT MAY PRODUCE SMALL
HAIL...GUSTY WINDS...AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL THROUGH EARLY
AFTERNOON.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY.

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

In the hours before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Wilmington, OH issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 11, 9:01 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryILNPike, Scioto119 min
Aug 11, 10:10 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryILNScioto2 hr
Aug 12, 11:27 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementILNFairfield33 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.