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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 11, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 28, 2020, 12:23 AM EDT for Lewis County, Kentucky. It was in force for 20 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 28, 2020, 12:23 AM EDT (04:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 28, 2020, 12:43 AM EDT
- In force
- 20 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 50.0 mph
County Lewis County, KY
The radar
The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:23 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, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 106 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1182 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 89 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 205 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 511 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 27, 10:26 PM EDT, 1 hour 57 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 27, 10:26 PM EDT, 1 hour 57 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Mar 28, 12:16 AM EDT, 7 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Wilmington, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Mar 28, 12:34 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILN | Brown | 26 min |
| Mar 28, 3:19 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILN | Delaware, Union | 26 min |
| Mar 28, 1:05 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILN | Preble | 25 min |
| Mar 28, 1:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Darke, Miami, Montgomery, Preble | 35 min |
| Mar 28, 1:22 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILN | Darke | 23 min |
| Mar 28, 1:40 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILN | Clark | 35 min |
| Mar 28, 1:46 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILN | Darke, Shelby | 29 min |
| Mar 28, 1:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Champaign, Clark, Greene, Miami, Montgomery | 40 min |
| Mar 28, 1:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Clark, Greene, Madison | 32 min |
| Mar 28, 2:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Franklin, Madison, Pickaway | 48 min |
| Mar 28, 2:16 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILN | Fairfield | 29 min |
| Mar 28, 2:27 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILN | Clark | 18 min |
| Mar 28, 2:36 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILN | Darke | 24 min |
| Mar 28, 2:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Fairfield, Franklin, Licking, Pickaway | 51 min |
| Mar 28, 2:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Fairfield, Licking | 48 min |
| Mar 28, 3:05 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILN | Franklin | 25 min |
| Mar 28, 3:09 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ILN | Fairfield, Franklin, Licking | 3 hr |
| Mar 28, 3:29 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILN | Darke | 46 min |
| Mar 28, 3:29 PM EDT | Wind Advisory | ILN | Adams, Auglaize, Brown, Butler, Champaign, Clark and 26 more | 29 hr |
| Mar 28, 5:37 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILN | Darke | 38 min |
| Mar 28, 6:26 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ILN | Auglaize, Darke, Mercer, Miami, Shelby | 3 hr |
| Mar 28, 6:49 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Darke, Miami, Shelby | 3 hr |
| Mar 28, 7:09 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILN | Logan, Union | 51 min |
| Mar 28, 7:15 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ILN | Champaign, Logan | 3 hr |
| Mar 28, 7:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Logan, Union | 23 min |
| Mar 28, 7:49 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ILN | Delaware, Union | 2 hr |
| Mar 28, 12:16 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILN | Lewis | 29 min |
| Mar 28, 12:42 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILN | Bracken, Pendleton | 33 min |
| Mar 28, 12:44 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILN | Wayne | 31 min |
| Mar 28, 12:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Fayette, Union, Wayne | 35 min |
| Mar 28, 12:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Ripley | 31 min |
| Mar 28, 1:27 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILN | Dearborn | 48 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.