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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 159, NWS Wilmington, OH

August 20, 2014Boone County, Kenton County, Kentucky

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 20, 2014, 4:39 PM EDT for Boone County, Kenton County, Kentucky. It was in force for 21 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 20, 2014, 4:39 PM EDT (20:39 UTC)
Expired
Aug 20, 2014, 5:00 PM EDT
In force
21 min
Issued by
NWS Wilmington, OH
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
0.75 in
Wind
60.0 mph

Counties Boone County, KY, Kenton County, KY

The radar

The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:39 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 89 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 2014-08-20Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 2014-08-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 53 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1224 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
53 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
120 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 Aug 20, 4:17 PM EDT, 22 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 20, 4:17 PM EDT, 22 minutes before
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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 20, 3:28 PM EDT, 1 hour 11 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Aug 20, 4:10 PM EDT, 29 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 19, 8:00 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementILNAuglaize45 min
Aug 19, 8:10 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementILNDarke35 min
Aug 19, 8:15 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementILNDelaware30 min
Aug 19, 8:42 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementILNAuglaize33 min
Aug 19, 9:13 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementILNHardin32 min
Aug 19, 9:16 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementILNDelaware29 min
Aug 20, 12:56 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementILNButler, Hamilton34 min
Aug 20, 1:14 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNButler, Hamilton, Warren46 min
Aug 20, 1:29 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementILNHamilton31 min
Aug 20, 1:41 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNHamilton21 min
Aug 20, 1:49 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementILNClinton, Warren26 min
Aug 20, 2:12 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementILNHardin, Logan, Shelby48 min
Aug 20, 2:30 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementILNBrown, Highland30 min
Aug 20, 2:38 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNAdams, Brown, Highland37 min
Aug 20, 3:00 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementILNUnion30 min
Aug 20, 3:15 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementILNPike, Ross, Scioto30 min
Aug 20, 3:36 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementILNDelaware24 min
Aug 20, 3:39 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementILNPike, Ross, Scioto36 min
Aug 20, 4:57 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementILNClermont33 min
Aug 20, 12:43 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementILNGallatin, Grant, Owen32 min
Aug 20, 1:18 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementILNGrant27 min
Aug 20, 2:04 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementILNGallatin26 min
Aug 20, 2:44 AM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryILNCarroll, Gallatin, Grant, Owen2 hr
Aug 20, 3:34 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementILNLewis41 min
Aug 20, 3:50 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementILNCarroll25 min
Aug 20, 4:05 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementILNBoone25 min
Aug 20, 4:10 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementILNGrant20 min
Aug 20, 4:15 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementILNOwen30 min
Aug 20, 4:28 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementILNBoone, Campbell, Kenton47 min
Aug 20, 5:05 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementILNBracken, Pendleton, Robertson40 min
Aug 20, 5:37 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementILNMason23 min
Aug 19, 11:54 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementILNFayette, Union36 min
Aug 20, 12:07 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNFayette, Franklin, Union, Wayne53 min
Aug 20, 12:31 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementILNDearborn, Franklin, Ripley29 min
Aug 20, 3:28 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementILNDearborn, Franklin, Ripley47 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kentucky, 2014Every 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.