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Special Weather Statement, NWS Wilmington, OH

August 3, 2017Pickaway County, Ohio

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this special weather statement at Aug 3, 2017, 10:02 PM EDT for Pickaway County, Ohio. It was in force for 28 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

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Issued
Aug 3, 2017, 10:02 PM EDT (02:02 UTC)
Expired
Aug 3, 2017, 10:30 PM EDT
In force
28 min
Issued by
NWS Wilmington, OH

County Pickaway County, OH

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 59 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 00:00Z on 2017-08-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1228 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 2017-08-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 49 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
1228 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-6 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1268 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
49 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
115 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.2
Supercell composite
2.1

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NWS Wilmington, OH wrote its last area forecast discussion before this special weather statement went out at Aug 3, 8:01 PM EDT, 2 hours 1 minute earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 3, 8:01 PM EDT, 2 hours 1 minute before
Area Forecast Discussion
National Weather Service Wilmington OH
801 PM EDT Thu Aug 3 2017

.SYNOPSIS...
A cold front will approach the region tonight and move through
on Friday. Dry conditions and high pressure will then move into
the region for Friday night into Saturday.

&&

.NEAR TERM /UNTIL 6 AM FRIDAY MORNING/...
Isolated to scattered showers and thunderstorms will be in place
this afternoon and into the early evening hours due to daytime
heating and instability. An isolated damaging wind gust cannot
be ruled out, however not expecting more than an isolated severe
potential.

Activity will briefly taper off later this evening, however
additional shower and thunderstorm activity will begin to move
into the region late in the overnight hours in advance of a cold
front.

Temperatures will only drop into the middle to upper 60s
overnight with some cloud cover through the overnight hours.

&&

.SHORT TERM /6 AM FRIDAY MORNING THROUGH FRIDAY NIGHT/...
A cold front will move through the forecast area on Friday.
Expect the greatest coverage of thunderstorm activity across
eastern portions of the area where there will be more daytime
heating. This will also be the area that has a higher potential
for damaging wind gusts with the storms. Will continue to have
severe mention in the hazardous weather outlook.  After this
feature moves through expect cooler and drier conditions for
Friday night.

&&

.LONG TERM /SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY/...
Surface high pressure will build in across the area through the day
on Saturday. This will be accompanied by a cooler and drier airmass
with daytime highs five degrees or so below normal, generally in the
mid to upper 70s.

The surface high will shift off to the east through the day on
Sunday  and with progressive zonal flow aloft, some embedded mid
level energy will push east across the region. There are still some
timing differences between the models with these features with the
12Z ECMWF still the fastest bringing pcpn into our area. Will
therefore go ahead and allow for chance pops to spread in from the
west through the day on Sunday. Instability is pretty marginal so
would expect mainly showers with perhaps some embedded thunder.
Temperatures on Sunday will be dependent on how fast the clouds and
any pcpn moves in but for now will keep highs in the 75 to 80 degree
range.

A stronger short wave will approach from the west Sunday night into
Monday with an associated surface wave riding up through the Ohio
Valley. This will lead to increasing chances of pcpn for Sunday
night and continuing into Monday. Instability remains fairly
negligible Sunday night but is forecast to increase some through the
day on Monday. Expect highs on Monday again in the 75 to 80 degree
range.

We will then remain in a fairly progressive westerly upper level
flow pattern through the mid to late part of next week. There are
some model differences through mid week with the GFS trying to bring
a surface wave up across the Appalachians. This could eventually
lead to a chance of showers toward mid week but will trend toward
the drier ECMWF at this point. Highs will trend back up into the
upper 70s to lower 80s through the end of the period.

&&

.AVIATION /00Z FRIDAY THROUGH TUESDAY/...
Isolated convection has formed thanks to daytime heating this
afternoon, but the main show for convection has remained in
Indiana towards the better upper level diffluence and
divergence. Activity will diminish later this evening as daytime
heating is lost. Overnight into Friday morning a potent upper
level low will push east towards Michigan. As this happens high
res models are trying to show some midlevel energy pulling
northeast out in front. Not surprisingly high res models try and
develop some light showers after midnight Friday morning and
quickly pull them northeast. For now have left the mention of
precipitation out of the TAFs until the prefrontal trough
arrives later Friday morning given low confidence on location/
occurrence.

Friday morning between 5 and 7 AM the prefrontal trough will
push towards the OH/ IN state line. Most likely a weak band of
showers will be present with this trough axis. Latest runs of
the HRRR and RAP are not impressive to say the least. Thunder
will be possible as elevated instability remains, but think the
chance is low at this time. Friday morning (or before noon) the
RAP and HRRR actually have the prefrontal trough approaching
KCMH/ KLCK. Behind the prefrontal trough winds will veer to the
SSW and the chance of thunder will begin to greatly diminish.
The cold front will be right behind the trough axis and usher in
much drier air (PWATs falling from ~1.5" to 0.75") and breezy
conditions. GFS forecast soundings are indicating wind gusts up
to 20kts possible while the NAM is slightly lower (via momentum
transfer). The other concern will be MVFR cigs as the upper
level low pushes east across Michigan (moisture being trapped
underneath the inversion). Overall thinking is that most TAF
sites will remain VFR with the exception being the northern TAF
sites. Even at the northern TAF sites confidence is only
moderate.

Friday evening surface high pressure will slowly build in from
the west with winds being slower than normal to decouple (due to
the pressure gradient). Clouds will also slowly decrease in
coverage.

OUTLOOK...Showers and isolated thunderstorms are possible
Sunday night into Monday.

&&

.ILN WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
OH...None.
KY...None.
IN...None.

&&

SYNOPSIS...Haines/Novak
NEAR TERM...Novak
SHORT TERM...Novak
LONG TERM...JGL
AVIATION...Haines
Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 3, 5:02 AM EDT, 17 hours before
Hazardous Weather Outlook
National Weather Service Wilmington OH
502 AM EDT Thu Aug 3 2017

INZ050-058-059-066-073>075-080-KYZ089>100-OHZ026-034-035-042>046-
051>056-060>065-070>074-077>082-088-040915-
Wayne-Fayette IN-Union IN-Franklin IN-Ripley-Dearborn-Ohio-
Switzerland-Carroll-Gallatin-Boone-Kenton-Campbell-Owen-Grant-
Pendleton-Bracken-Robertson-Mason-Lewis-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-Ross-Hocking-Hamilton-Clermont-Brown-
Highland-Adams-Pike-Scioto-
502 AM EDT Thu Aug 3 2017

This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for East Central Indiana,
Southeast Indiana, Northeast Kentucky, Northern Kentucky, Central
Ohio, Southwest Ohio and West Central Ohio.

.DAY ONE...Today and Tonight.

Scattered thunderstorm activity will see slow moving storms with the
threat of brief, torrential rainfall over the region, primarily this
afternoon into the early evening hours today.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Friday through Wednesday.

A strong cold front will cross the region Friday. Thunderstorms
along and ahead of the front may become severe with damaging winds
and large hail possible.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

Spotter activation is not expected at this time.

In the hours before

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 3, 8:09 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementILNMadison36 min
Aug 3, 8:15 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementILNMercer30 min
Aug 3, 8:45 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementILNClark, Madison45 min
Aug 3, 8:47 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementILNAuglaize, Mercer43 min
Aug 3, 9:03 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementILNUnion27 min
Aug 3, 9:31 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementILNFayette29 min
Aug 3, 9:45 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementILNHardin45 min
Aug 3, 9:59 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementILNLogan31 min
Aug 4, 5:16 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementILNMercer44 min
Aug 4, 6:07 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementILNUnion23 min
Aug 4, 8:57 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementILNBrown33 min
Aug 4, 9:35 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementILNFranklin25 min
Aug 4, 12:59 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementILNDelaware31 min
Aug 4, 1:42 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementILNDelaware18 min
Aug 4, 3:14 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementILNPickaway31 min

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