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Winter Weather Advisory 8, NWS Wilmington, OH

February 8, 202126 counties in Ohio; 9 counties in Kentucky; 8 counties in Indiana

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this winter weather advisory at Feb 8, 2021, 3:30 AM EST for 26 counties in Ohio; 9 counties in Kentucky; 8 counties in Indiana. It took effect at Feb 8, 2021, 4:00 PM EST. It was in force for 15 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Feb 8, 2021, 3:30 AM EST (08:30 UTC)
In effect from: Feb 8, 2021, 4:00 PM EST
Expired: Feb 9, 2021, 6:55 AM EST
In force: 15 hr
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, OH

All 43 counties

Dearborn County, IN, Fayette County, IN, Franklin County, IN, Ohio County, IN, Ripley County, IN, Switzerland County, IN, Union County, IN, Wayne County, IN, Boone County, KY, Bracken County, KY, Campbell County, KY, Carroll County, KY, Gallatin County, KY, Grant County, KY, Kenton County, KY, Owen County, KY, Pendleton County, KY, Adams County, OH, Brown County, OH, Butler County, OH, Champaign County, OH, Clark County, OH, Clermont County, OH, Clinton County, OH, Delaware County, OH, Fairfield County, OH, Fayette County, OH, Franklin County, OH, Greene County, OH, Hamilton County, OH, Highland County, OH, Hocking County, OH, Licking County, OH, Madison County, OH, Miami County, OH, Montgomery County, OH, Pickaway County, OH, Pike County, OH, Preble County, OH, Ross County, OH, Scioto County, OH, Union County, OH, Warren County, OH

The radar

The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 22 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:34 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 24 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: 1509 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 70 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 44 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 116 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this winter weather advisory 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 winter weather advisory went out at Feb 8, 12:55 AM EST, 2 hours 35 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 8, 12:55 AM EST, 2 hours 35 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
Feb 8, 3:26 PM EST	Winter Storm Watch	ILN	Adams, Brown, Scioto	24 hr

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.