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Freeze Warning 5, NWS Wilmington, OH

April 7, 201624 counties in Ohio; 12 counties in Kentucky; 8 counties in Indiana

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this freeze warning at Apr 7, 2016, 3:16 PM EDT for 24 counties in Ohio; 12 counties in Kentucky; 8 counties in Indiana. It took effect at Apr 8, 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: Apr 7, 2016, 3:16 PM EDT (19:16 UTC)
In effect from: Apr 8, 2016, 2:00 AM EDT
Expired: Apr 8, 2016, 9:45 AM EDT
In force: 8 hr
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, OH

All 44 counties

Dearborn County, IN, Fayette County, IN, Franklin County, IN, Ohio County, IN, Ripley County, IN, Switzerland County, IN, Union County, IN, Wayne 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, Butler County, OH, Champaign County, OH, Clark County, OH, Clermont County, OH, Clinton County, OH, Darke County, OH, Fairfield County, OH, Fayette County, OH, Franklin County, OH, Greene County, OH, Hamilton County, OH, Highland County, OH, Hocking County, OH, Madison County, OH, Miami County, OH, Montgomery County, OH, Pickaway County, OH, Pike County, OH, Preble County, OH, Ross County, OH, Scioto County, OH, Warren County, OH

The radar

The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 32 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 34 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: 20 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -1 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 502 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 76 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 75 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 freeze 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 freeze warning went out at Apr 6, 7:48 PM EDT, 19 hours 28 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 6, 7:48 PM EDT, 19 hours 28 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
Apr 6, 8:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Champaign, Logan, Union	46 min
Apr 6, 9:40 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Miami	50 min
Apr 6, 10:49 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Clermont	41 min
Apr 6, 11:10 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Brown	35 min
Apr 6, 11:36 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Brown, Highland	24 min
Apr 6, 11:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Adams	42 min
Apr 7, 12:35 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Fairfield, Franklin	25 min
Apr 7, 3:14 AM EDT	Freeze Watch	ILN	Adams, Brown, Butler, Champaign, Clark, Clermont and 18 more	12 hr
Apr 7, 3:16 PM EDT	Freeze Watch	ILN	Adams, Brown, Butler, Champaign, Clark, Clermont and 18 more	13 hr
Apr 7, 7:06 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Fairfield, Franklin, Madison, Pickaway	39 min

Nearby

Freeze Warnings in Ohio, 2016 Freeze Warnings in Kentucky, 2016 Freeze Warnings in Indiana, 2016 Every 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.