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Winter Storm Warning 2, NWS Wilmington, OH

January 24, 202310 counties in Ohio; 6 counties in Indiana

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this winter storm warning at Jan 24, 2023, 3:46 AM EST for 10 counties in Ohio; 6 counties in Indiana. It took effect at Jan 25, 2023, 12:00 AM EST. It was in force for 15 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jan 24, 2023, 3:46 AM EST (08:46 UTC)
In effect from
Jan 25, 2023, 12:00 AM EST
Expired
Jan 25, 2023, 3:12 PM EST
In force
15 hr
Issued by
NWS Wilmington, OH

Counties Dearborn County, IN, Fayette County, IN, Franklin County, IN, Ripley County, IN, Union County, IN, Wayne County, IN, Auglaize County, OH, Butler County, OH, Darke County, OH, Hamilton County, OH, Mercer County, OH, Miami County, OH, Montgomery County, OH, Preble County, OH, Shelby County, OH, Warren County, OH

The radar

The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:46 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 339 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, Lincoln, IL at 00:00Z on 2023-01-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Lincoln, IL at 00:00Z on 2023-01-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 128 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1103 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
128 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
138 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 storm 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 winter storm warning went out at Jan 24, 12:49 AM EST, 2 hours 57 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 24, 12:49 AM EST, 2 hours 57 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 24, 3:46 AM ESTWinter Weather AdvisoryILNBrown, Butler, Champaign, Clark, Clermont, Clinton and 19 more31 hr

Nearby

Winter Storm Warnings in Ohio, 2023Winter Storm Warnings in Indiana, 2023Every winter storm warning in 2023

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.