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Special Weather Statement, NWS Wilmington, OH

June 18, 2014Shelby County, Ohio

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this special weather statement at Jun 18, 2014, 4:03 PM EDT for Shelby County, Ohio. It was in force for 27 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 18, 2014, 4:03 PM EDT (20:03 UTC)
Expired: Jun 18, 2014, 4:30 PM EDT
In force: 27 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, OH

County Shelby County, OH

The radar

The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:06 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, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 97 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: 1489 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -36 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1071 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -23 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -52 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.7

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Jun 18, 1:59 PM EDT, 2 hours 4 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 18, 1:59 PM EDT, 2 hours 4 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 18, 5:07 AM EDT, 10 hours 56 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 18, 11:04 AM EDT, 4 hours 59 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 18, 11:24 AM EDT, 4 hours 39 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
1124 AM EDT WED JUN 18 2014

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0123 PM     TSTM WND DMG     2 N YELLOW SPRINGS      39.84N 83.89W
06/16/2014                   CLARK              OH   EMERGENCY MNGR

            SEVERAL TREES DOWN ALONG SOUTH TECHUMSEH ROAD.

0123 PM     TSTM WND DMG     3 NNE YELLOW SPRINGS    39.84N 83.87W
06/16/2014                   CLARK              OH   EMERGENCY MNGR

            SEVERAL LARGE TREES DOWN ALONG HUSTEAD ROAD.

0124 PM     TSTM WND DMG     5 SSW SPRINGFIELD       39.86N 83.83W
06/16/2014                   CLARK              OH   EMERGENCY MNGR

            SEVERAL TREES DOWN ALONG WEST SPARROW ROAD.

&&

JDR

Special weather statement, Jun 18, 4:03 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
403 PM EDT WED JUN 18 2014

OHZ043-044-052-182030-
CHAMPAIGN OH-LOGAN OH-SHELBY OH-
403 PM EDT WED JUN 18 2014

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT EASTERN SHELBY...WESTERN LOGAN
AND NORTHWESTERN CHAMPAIGN COUNTIES THROUGH 430 PM EDT...

AT 359 PM EDT...RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR SIDNEY...
MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

STORM HAZARDS INCLUDE...
WINDS TO 40 MPH...

THE STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT...
SIDNEY...PORT JEFFERSON...PLATTSVILLE...PEMBERTON...
LOCKINGTON...MAPLEWOOD...QUINCY...LOGANSVILLE...DE GRAFF...
ROSEWOOD...KISER LAKE STATE PARK...BLOOM CENTER AND LEWISTOWN.

LAT...LON 4046 8385 4034 8380 4015 8386 4017 8403
      4018 8403 4019 8415 4020 8430 4040 8421

HATZOS

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 18, 4:24 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Logan	36 min
Jun 18, 4:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Darke	32 min
Jun 18, 5:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Darke, Miami, Shelby	50 min
Jun 18, 5:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Delaware	29 min
Jun 18, 5:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Miami, Shelby	57 min
Jun 18, 5:35 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Shelby	25 min
Jun 18, 5:36 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Hardin	24 min
Jun 18, 5:54 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Auglaize, Hardin, Mercer	36 min
Jun 18, 5:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Champaign	32 min
Jun 18, 6:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Champaign, Clark	31 min
Jun 18, 6:24 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Darke	21 min
Jun 18, 6:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Union	27 min
Jun 18, 6:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Darke, Preble	42 min
Jun 18, 6:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Madison	34 min
Jun 18, 6:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Miami, Shelby	37 min
Jun 18, 6:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Delaware	32 min
Jun 18, 7:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Montgomery, Preble	33 min
Jun 18, 7:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Montgomery, Preble	42 min
Jun 18, 7:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Franklin, Licking	35 min
Jun 18, 7:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Greene	29 min
Jun 18, 7:52 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Butler, Warren	23 min
Jun 18, 7:54 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Fairfield, Licking	36 min
Jun 18, 7:57 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Clark, Madison	33 min
Jun 18, 5:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Wayne	31 min
Jun 18, 6:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Fayette, Union	30 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.