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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 209, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Dec 23, 2015, 4:27 PM EST for Darke County, Preble County, Ohio; Wayne County, Indiana. It was in force for 48 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
- Dec 23, 2015, 4:27 PM EST (21:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 23, 2015, 5:15 PM EST
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Tornado
- Possible
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Wayne County, IN, Darke County, OH, Preble County, OH
The radar
The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:29 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 23, 4:17 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
| Dec 23, 1:28 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 98 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
- 133 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -40 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 583 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 34 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Dec 23, 12:51 PM EST, 3 hours 36 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 23, 12:51 PM EST, 3 hours 36 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Wilmington, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Dec 23, 4:49 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Butler, Hamilton, Montgomery, Preble, Warren | 56 min |
| Dec 23, 4:51 PM EST | Tornado Warning | ILN | Darke, Preble | 24 min |
| Dec 23, 5:03 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Clermont, Hamilton | 42 min |
| Dec 23, 5:10 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | ILN | Mercer | 35 min |
| Dec 23, 5:11 PM EST | Tornado Warning | ILN | Darke, Miami | 19 min |
| Dec 23, 5:22 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Champaign, Clark, Logan, Miami, Montgomery, Shelby | 38 min |
| Dec 23, 5:28 PM EST | Tornado Warning | ILN | Miami | 21 min |
| Dec 23, 5:31 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Butler, Clark, Clinton, Greene, Miami, Montgomery and 1 more | 44 min |
| Dec 23, 5:40 PM EST | Tornado Warning | ILN | Miami, Shelby | 12 min |
| Dec 23, 5:59 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Champaign, Clark, Logan, Madison, Union | 46 min |
| Dec 23, 6:03 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | ILN | Hardin, Logan | 27 min |
| Dec 23, 6:14 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | ILN | Madison | 31 min |
| Dec 23, 6:40 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | ILN | Delaware, Franklin | 50 min |
| Dec 23, 4:40 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Boone, Carroll, Gallatin, Owen | 37 min |
| Dec 23, 6:45 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | ILN | Carroll, Gallatin, Owen | 45 min |
| Dec 23, 4:09 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Dearborn, Fayette, Franklin, Ohio, Ripley, Switzerland and 2 more | 51 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.