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Freeze Warning 3, NWS Wilmington, OH

October 16, 201518 counties in Ohio; 4 counties in Indiana

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this freeze warning at Oct 16, 2015, 3:04 PM EDT for 18 counties in Ohio; 4 counties in Indiana. It took effect at Oct 17, 2015, 2:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 8 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Oct 16, 2015, 3:04 PM EDT (19:04 UTC)
In effect from
Oct 17, 2015, 2:00 AM EDT
Expired
Oct 17, 2015, 10:00 AM EDT
In force
8 hr
Issued by
NWS Wilmington, OH
All 22 counties

Fayette County, IN, Franklin County, IN, Union County, IN, Wayne County, IN, Auglaize County, OH, Butler County, OH, Champaign County, OH, Clark County, OH, Darke County, OH, Delaware County, OH, Fairfield County, OH, Greene County, OH, Hardin County, OH, Licking County, OH, Logan County, OH, Madison County, OH, Mercer County, OH, Miami County, OH, Montgomery County, OH, Preble County, OH, Shelby County, OH, Union County, OH

The radar

The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:05 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, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 68 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 2015-10-16Temperature 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 2015-10-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -113 square meters per square second.1939587897117136156Sfc1 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
1537 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
82 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-113 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-82 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 16, 4:21 AM EDTFrost AdvisoryILNAdams, Auglaize, Brown, Butler, Champaign, Clark and 26 more30 hr
Oct 16, 4:21 AM EDTFreeze WatchILNAdams, Auglaize, Brown, Butler, Champaign, Clark and 26 more24 hr

Nearby

Freeze Warnings in Ohio, 2015Freeze Warnings in Indiana, 2015Every freeze warning in 2015

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.