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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 198, NWS Wilmington, OH

August 3, 2015Butler County, Warren County, Ohio

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 3, 2015, 7:51 PM EDT for Butler County, Warren County, Ohio. It was in force for 25 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 3, 2015, 7:51 PM EDT (23:51 UTC)
Expired: Aug 3, 2015, 8:16 PM EDT
In force: 25 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, OH
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Butler County, OH, Warren County, OH

The radar

The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:54 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Aug 3, 3:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 49 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1837 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 54 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 207 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 377 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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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 3, 7:51 PM EDT, 0 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 3, 7:51 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 3, 3:23 PM EDT, 4 hours 28 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
323 PM EDT MON AUG 3 2015

OHZ026-034-035-043>046-041930-
HARDIN-MERCER-AUGLAIZE-SHELBY-LOGAN-UNION-DELAWARE-
323 PM EDT MON AUG 3 2015

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL OHIO AND WEST CENTRAL
OHIO.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.

THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY.

ON THURSDAY... A SURFACE LOW WILL APPROACH FROM THE WEST BRINGING
THE POTENTIAL FOR HEAVY RAINFALL WHICH COULD LEAD TO FLOODING.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

INZ050-058-059-066-073>075-080-KYZ089>100-OHZ042-051>056-060>065-
070>074-077>082-088-041930-
WAYNE-FAYETTE-UNION-FRANKLIN-RIPLEY-DEARBORN-OHIO-SWITZERLAND-
CARROLL-GALLATIN-BOONE-KENTON-CAMPBELL-OWEN-GRANT-PENDLETON-BRACKEN-
ROBERTSON-MASON-LEWIS-DARKE-MIAMI-CHAMPAIGN-CLARK-MADISON-LICKING-
PREBLE-MONTGOMERY-GREENE-PICKAWAY-FAIRFIELD-BUTLER-WARREN-CLINTON-
ROSS-HOCKING-HAMILTON-CLERMONT-BROWN-HIGHLAND-ADAMS-PIKE-SCIOTO-
323 PM EDT MON AUG 3 2015

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR INDIANA...NORTHEAST
KENTUCKY...NORTHERN KENTUCKY...CENTRAL OHIO...SOUTHWEST OHIO AND
WEST CENTRAL OHIO.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.

SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND
EVENING ALONG AND AHEAD OF A COLD FRONT. A FEW STORMS COULD REACH
SEVERE LIMITS WITH DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL BEING THE
PRIMARY SEVERE WEATHER THREATS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY.

ON THURSDAY... A SURFACE LOW WILL APPROACH FROM THE WEST BRINGING
THE POTENTIAL FOR HEAVY RAINFALL WHICH COULD LEAD TO FLOODING.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 3, 7:33 PM EDT, 18 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 3, 7:38 PM EDT, 13 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 3, 7:40 PM EDT, 11 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 3, 7:42 PM EDT, 9 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 3, 7:46 PM EDT, 5 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 3, 7:48 PM EDT, 3 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 3, 2:26 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Auglaize, Hardin	34 min
Aug 3, 2:49 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Auglaize, Hardin, Logan, Mercer, Shelby	26 min
Aug 3, 3:11 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Logan, Shelby	34 min
Aug 3, 3:46 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Darke, Miami	29 min
Aug 3, 4:05 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Fayette, Greene, Montgomery	25 min
Aug 3, 4:17 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Clinton, Warren	28 min
Aug 3, 3:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Darke, Preble	29 min
Aug 3, 4:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Preble	36 min
Aug 3, 4:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Butler, Montgomery, Preble	24 min
Aug 3, 4:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Butler, Preble	46 min
Aug 3, 4:49 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILN	Preble	2 hr
Aug 3, 5:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Shelby	37 min
Aug 3, 5:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Butler, Preble	52 min
Aug 3, 5:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Butler, Hamilton	50 min
Aug 3, 5:31 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILN	Butler, Preble	119 min
Aug 3, 5:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Butler, Hamilton	41 min
Aug 3, 5:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Hamilton	39 min
Aug 3, 5:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Butler, Hamilton	38 min
Aug 3, 6:07 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILN	Hamilton	113 min
Aug 3, 6:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Clermont, Warren	27 min
Aug 3, 6:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Hamilton	29 min
Aug 3, 6:34 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILN	Butler, Warren	116 min
Aug 3, 6:36 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Butler	24 min
Aug 3, 6:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Highland	30 min
Aug 3, 6:47 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILN	Clermont, Hamilton	118 min
Aug 3, 6:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Butler, Clermont, Hamilton, Warren	16 min
Aug 3, 7:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Clermont, Hamilton	29 min
Aug 3, 7:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Union	32 min
Aug 3, 7:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Adams, Highland, Pike	26 min
Aug 3, 7:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Brown, Clermont	34 min
Aug 3, 7:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Hamilton	29 min
Aug 3, 7:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Franklin	27 min
Aug 3, 6:24 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Kenton	36 min
Aug 3, 6:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Campbell	35 min
Aug 3, 7:21 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Grant	24 min
Aug 3, 7:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Grant, Pendleton	33 min
Aug 3, 7:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Kenton	33 min
Aug 3, 7:54 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Bracken, Pendleton	36 min
Aug 3, 3:35 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Wayne	25 min
Aug 3, 4:04 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILN	Wayne	3 hr
Aug 3, 4:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Wayne	31 min
Aug 3, 4:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Wayne	32 min
Aug 3, 4:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Wayne	19 min
Aug 3, 4:45 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILN	Wayne	2 hr
Aug 3, 4:56 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILN	Fayette, Union	3 hr
Aug 3, 5:10 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Franklin	35 min
Aug 3, 6:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Franklin	32 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.