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Wind Chill Advisory 6, NWS Wilmington, OH

February 15, 201512 counties in Ohio

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this wind chill advisory at Feb 15, 2015, 12:03 PM EST for 12 counties in Ohio. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Feb 15, 2015, 12:03 PM EST (17:03 UTC)
Expired: Feb 15, 2015, 2:58 PM EST
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, OH

Counties Champaign County, OH, Clark County, OH, Delaware County, OH, Fairfield County, OH, Franklin County, OH, Hardin County, OH, Hocking County, OH, Licking County, OH, Logan County, OH, Madison County, OH, Pickaway County, OH, Union County, OH

The radar

The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:09 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, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 85 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: 920 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 98 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -6 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 62 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this wind chill advisory 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 wind chill advisory went out at Feb 15, 10:43 AM EST, 1 hour 20 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 15, 10:43 AM EST, 1 hour 20 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
Feb 15, 3:57 AM EST	Winter Storm Watch	ILN	Adams, Brown, Butler, Clermont, Clinton, Hamilton and 6 more	11 hr
Feb 15, 10:01 AM EST	Winter Storm Warning	ILN	Adams, Brown, Butler, Clermont, Clinton, Fairfield and 9 more	37 hr
Feb 15, 2:58 PM EST	Winter Weather Advisory	ILN	Butler, Clark, Clinton, Fairfield, Fayette, Franklin and 7 more	33 hr

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.