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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 199, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 3, 2015, 8:02 PM EDT for Adams County, Brown County, Ohio; Bracken County, Mason County, Kentucky. It was in force for 43 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, 8:02 PM EDT (00:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 3, 2015, 8:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.5 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Bracken County, KY, Mason County, KY, Adams County, OH, Brown County, OH
The radar
The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:03 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 00:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 74 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1195 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -141 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1177 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 139 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 119 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 3.4
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, 11 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 3, 7:51 PM EDT, 11 minutes before
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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.
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Local storm report, Aug 3, 7:38 PM EDT, 24 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Wilmington, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 3, 8:10 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILN | Clermont | 35 min |
| Aug 3, 8:30 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILN | Hamilton | 30 min |
| Aug 3, 8:17 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ILN | Bracken, Mason, Pendleton, Robertson | 118 min |
| Aug 3, 8:26 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILN | Robertson | 34 min |
| Aug 3, 8:43 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILN | Robertson | 32 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Ohio, 2015Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kentucky, 2015Every severe thunderstorm 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.