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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 25, NWS Wilmington, OH

March 14, 20194 counties in Ohio

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 14, 2019, 8:15 PM EDT for 4 counties in Ohio. It was in force for 45 min. 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 14, 2019, 8:15 PM EDT (00:15 UTC)
Expired: Mar 14, 2019, 9:00 PM EDT
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, OH
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Fairfield County, OH, Franklin County, OH, Licking County, OH, Pickaway County, OH

The radar

The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:18 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Mar 14, 5:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 99 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: 108 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -61 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 864 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 73 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 322 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 384 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Mar 14, 7:45 PM EDT, 30 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 14, 7:45 PM EDT, 30 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 14, 8:05 PM EDT, 10 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Mar 14, 7:26 PM EDT, 49 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
726 PM EDT THU MAR 14 2019

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0720 PM     TSTM WND DMG     3 SE CLARKSVILLE        39.37N 83.94W
03/14/2019                   CLINTON            OH   AMATEUR RADIO

            SEVERAL TREES DOWN ACROSS STATE ROUTE 730 BETWEEN
            WILMINGTON AND BLANCHESTER

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BC

Local storm report, Mar 14, 7:36 PM EDT, 39 minutes before

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Local storm report, Mar 14, 7:51 PM EDT, 24 minutes before

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Local storm report, Mar 14, 7:57 PM EDT, 18 minutes before

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Local storm report, Mar 14, 8:01 PM EDT, 14 minutes before

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Local storm report, Mar 14, 8:15 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
Mar 14, 8:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Brown	25 min
Mar 14, 8:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Fairfield, Hocking, Pickaway, Ross	33 min
Mar 14, 9:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Pike, Ross	42 min
Mar 14, 9:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Fayette	37 min
Mar 14, 9:29 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILN	Clermont	2 hr
Mar 14, 9:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Highland, Pike, Ross	14 min
Mar 14, 9:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Adams, Brown, Clermont, Highland	37 min
Mar 14, 9:57 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Licking	33 min
Mar 14, 10:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Highland	30 min
Mar 14, 10:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Fairfield, Franklin, Licking	17 min
Mar 14, 10:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Adams, Brown, Highland, Pike, Ross	29 min
Mar 14, 10:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Hocking	27 min
Mar 14, 10:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Hocking	20 min
Mar 14, 10:34 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	ILN	Hocking	12 min
Mar 14, 10:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Hocking, Pike, Ross	42 min
Mar 14, 11:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Adams, Pike, Scioto	43 min
Mar 14, 11:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Scioto	34 min
Mar 14, 8:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Grant, Owen, Pendleton	24 min
Mar 14, 8:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Bracken, Pendleton	26 min
Mar 14, 8:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Grant, Owen	23 min
Mar 14, 8:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Bracken	20 min
Mar 14, 9:04 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Grant, Pendleton	26 min
Mar 14, 9:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Bracken, Grant, Pendleton	28 min
Mar 15, 12:16 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Greenup	29 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.