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Special Weather Statement, NWS Wilmington, OH

July 15, 2016Switzerland County, Indiana

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this special weather statement at Jul 15, 2016, 3:25 PM EDT for Switzerland County, Indiana. It was in force for 35 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: Jul 15, 2016, 3:25 PM EDT (19:25 UTC)
Expired: Jul 15, 2016, 4:00 PM EDT
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, OH

County Switzerland County, IN

The radar

The Louisville radar (KLVX), 122 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:28 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 135 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: 565 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -55 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 824 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 33 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 36 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 0.5

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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 Jul 15, 1:58 PM EDT, 1 hour 27 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 15, 1:58 PM EDT, 1 hour 27 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 15, 2:37 PM EDT, 48 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
237 PM EDT FRI JUL 15 2016

INZ050-058-059-066-OHZ026-034-035-042>046-051>056-060>065-070>072-
161100-
WAYNE-FAYETTE IN-UNION IN-FRANKLIN IN-HARDIN-MERCER-AUGLAIZE-DARKE-
SHELBY-LOGAN-UNION OH-DELAWARE-MIAMI-CHAMPAIGN-CLARK-MADISON-
FRANKLIN OH-LICKING-PREBLE-MONTGOMERY-GREENE-FAYETTE OH-PICKAWAY-
FAIRFIELD-BUTLER-WARREN-CLINTON-
237 PM EDT FRI JUL 15 2016

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EAST CENTRAL
INDIANA...SOUTHEAST INDIANA...CENTRAL OHIO...SOUTHWEST OHIO AND
WEST CENTRAL OHIO.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.

HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY.

SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE MONDAY INTO TUESDAY.
SOME OF THE STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE MONDAY AFTERNOON INTO MONDAY
NIGHT.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

INZ073>075-080-KYZ089>100-OHZ073-074-077>082-088-161100-
RIPLEY-DEARBORN-OHIO-SWITZERLAND-CARROLL-GALLATIN-BOONE-KENTON-
CAMPBELL-OWEN-GRANT-PENDLETON-BRACKEN-ROBERTSON-MASON-LEWIS-ROSS-
HOCKING-HAMILTON-CLERMONT-BROWN-HIGHLAND-ADAMS-PIKE-SCIOTO-
237 PM EDT FRI JUL 15 2016

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST INDIANA...NORTHEAST
KENTUCKY...NORTHERN KENTUCKY...CENTRAL OHIO AND SOUTHWEST OHIO.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.

SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE THROUGH EARLY EVENING. A
FEW OF THE STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WIND
GUSTS AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY.

SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE MONDAY INTO TUESDAY.
SOME OF THE STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE MONDAY AFTERNOON INTO MONDAY
NIGHT.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 15, 3:25 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
325 PM EDT FRI JUL 15 2016

INZ073-075-080-152000-
OHIO IN-SWITZERLAND IN-RIPLEY IN-
325 PM EDT FRI JUL 15 2016

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT OHIO...NORTHWESTERN SWITZERLAND
AND SOUTHWESTERN RIPLEY COUNTIES UNTIL 400 PM EDT...

AT 324 PM EDT...RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 11 MILES NORTH
OF MADISON...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

STORM HAZARDS INCLUDE...
WINDS TO 40 MPH...
PEA SIZE HAIL...

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
PLEASANT...FAIRVIEW...JACKSONVILLE...BEAR BRANCH...AVONBURG...
REXVILLE...MOUNT STERLING...ALLENSVILLE...MOOREFIELD...
CENTER SQUARE AND CROSS PLAINS.

TO REPORT HAZARDOUS WEATHER CONDITIONS...GO TO OUR WEBSITE AT
WEATHER.GOV/ILN AND SUBMIT YOUR REPORT VIA SOCIAL MEDIA...WHEN YOU
CAN DO SO SAFELY.

LAT...LON 3896 8540 3895 8519 3894 8512 3894 8511
      3893 8498 3876 8505 3880 8520 3892 8520
      3891 8543
TIME...MOT...LOC 1924Z 282DEG 21KT 3889 8533

The office that day

Everything else NWS Wilmington, OH issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 15, 3:38 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Hamilton	37 min
Jul 15, 3:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Warren	31 min
Jul 15, 4:20 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Warren	25 min
Jul 15, 4:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Fairfield, Hocking, Pickaway, Ross	31 min
Jul 15, 4:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Clermont, Hamilton	38 min
Jul 15, 4:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Fayette	30 min
Jul 15, 4:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Clinton	27 min
Jul 15, 4:49 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILN	Clinton, Highland, Warren	3 hr
Jul 15, 4:51 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Hocking	24 min
Jul 15, 4:56 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILN	Fairfield, Hocking, Pickaway, Ross	3 hr
Jul 15, 4:57 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Highland	33 min
Jul 15, 5:04 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Clermont	26 min
Jul 15, 5:10 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Brown	35 min
Jul 15, 5:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Highland, Ross	26 min
Jul 15, 5:21 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Highland	24 min
Jul 15, 5:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Hocking	18 min
Jul 15, 5:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Brown	28 min
Jul 15, 5:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Pike	48 min
Jul 15, 5:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Adams	40 min
Jul 15, 6:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Adams, Pike, Scioto	28 min
Jul 15, 6:08 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Pike	37 min
Jul 15, 6:20 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Scioto	40 min
Jul 15, 6:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Scioto	67 min
Jul 15, 4:21 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Gallatin	24 min
Jul 15, 4:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Campbell, Kenton	29 min
Jul 15, 4:42 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILN	Boone, Gallatin, Grant	2 hr
Jul 15, 5:38 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Grant	37 min
Jul 15, 5:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Mason	30 min
Jul 15, 5:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Owen	31 min
Jul 15, 6:10 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Mason	35 min
Jul 15, 4:03 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Switzerland	27 min

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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.