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Freeze Warning 1, NWS Wilmington, OH

March 25, 20167 counties in Ohio; 12 counties in Kentucky; 4 counties in Indiana

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this freeze warning at Mar 25, 2016, 2:56 PM EDT for 7 counties in Ohio; 12 counties in Kentucky; 4 counties in Indiana. It took effect at Mar 26, 2016, 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
Mar 25, 2016, 2:56 PM EDT (18:56 UTC)
In effect from
Mar 26, 2016, 2:00 AM EDT
Expired
Mar 26, 2016, 10:00 AM EDT
In force
8 hr
Issued by
NWS Wilmington, OH
All 23 counties

Dearborn County, IN, Ohio County, IN, Ripley County, IN, Switzerland County, IN, Boone County, KY, Bracken County, KY, Campbell County, KY, Carroll County, KY, Gallatin County, KY, Grant County, KY, Kenton County, KY, Lewis County, KY, Mason County, KY, Owen County, KY, Pendleton County, KY, Robertson County, KY, Adams County, OH, Brown County, OH, Clermont County, OH, Hamilton County, OH, Highland County, OH, Pike County, OH, Scioto County, OH

The radar

The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:53 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, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 77 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 2016-03-25Temperature 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 2016-03-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -17 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
600 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-17 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-8 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
Mar 24, 9:39 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementILNLicking36 min
Mar 24, 9:41 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementILNFairfield34 min
Mar 24, 9:46 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementILNPike29 min
Mar 24, 10:05 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementILNAdams25 min
Mar 24, 10:25 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementILNScioto35 min
Mar 24, 10:56 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementILNPike, Scioto64 min
Mar 24, 11:58 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementILNScioto32 min
Mar 24, 8:14 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementILNBracken, Pendleton31 min
Mar 24, 8:43 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementILNBracken32 min
Mar 24, 10:27 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementILNMason33 min

Nearby

Freeze Warnings in Kentucky, 2016Freeze Warnings in Ohio, 2016Freeze Warnings in Indiana, 2016Every freeze warning in 2016

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.