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Special Weather Statement, NWS Wilmington, OH

April 27, 2016Owen County, Kentucky

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this special weather statement at Apr 27, 2016, 10:32 PM EDT for Owen County, Kentucky. It was in force for 28 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Apr 27, 2016, 10:32 PM EDT (02:32 UTC)
Expired: Apr 27, 2016, 11:00 PM EDT
In force: 28 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, OH

County Owen County, KY

The radar

The Louisville radar (KLVX), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 143 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: 739 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 119 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 211 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Apr 27, 10:01 PM EDT, 31 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 27, 10:01 PM EDT, 31 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 27, 2:33 PM EDT, 7 hours 59 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Apr 27, 10:32 PM EDT, 0 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 28, 10:28 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Warren	32 min
Apr 28, 4:21 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Hocking	24 min
Apr 28, 4:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Fairfield, Hocking	33 min
Apr 28, 4:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Hocking	37 min
Apr 28, 5:07 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Preble	23 min
Apr 28, 5:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Montgomery	26 min
Apr 28, 5:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Preble	31 min
Apr 28, 5:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Montgomery	31 min
Apr 28, 6:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Greene	33 min
Apr 28, 6:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Greene, Montgomery	25 min
Apr 28, 6:24 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Ross	36 min
Apr 28, 6:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Fayette	29 min
Apr 28, 6:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Clinton, Greene	41 min
Apr 28, 6:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Ross	36 min
Apr 28, 7:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Clinton, Fayette, Greene	24 min
Apr 27, 10:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Grant, Owen	32 min
Apr 28, 3:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Fayette, Wayne	29 min
Apr 28, 4:11 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Wayne	34 min
Apr 28, 4:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Wayne	36 min
Apr 28, 4:48 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	ILN	Wayne	27 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.