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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 129, NWS Wilmington, OH

July 15, 2024Franklin County, Madison County, Pickaway County, Ohio

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 15, 2024, 4:25 PM EDT for Franklin County, Madison County, Pickaway County, Ohio. It was in force for 35 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: Jul 15, 2024, 4:25 PM EDT (20:25 UTC)
Expired: Jul 15, 2024, 5:00 PM EDT
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, OH
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Franklin County, OH, Madison County, OH, Pickaway County, OH

The radar

The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 72 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: 829 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -107 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1142 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -6 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 4 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 Jul 14, 7:51 PM EDT, 20 hours 34 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 14, 7:51 PM EDT, 20 hours 34 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 14, 6:14 PM EDT, 22 hours 11 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
Jul 15, 8:47 AM EDT	Heat Advisory	ILN	Adams, Brown, Butler, Clermont, Clinton, Fayette and 9 more	11 hr
Jul 15, 2:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Darke	40 min
Jul 15, 3:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Greene	40 min
Jul 15, 3:07 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Warren	38 min
Jul 15, 3:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Butler, Montgomery, Warren	39 min
Jul 15, 3:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Clark	23 min
Jul 15, 3:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Clark, Greene	39 min
Jul 15, 3:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Warren	35 min
Jul 15, 4:03 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Madison	42 min
Jul 15, 4:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Montgomery, Preble	38 min
Jul 15, 4:11 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Montgomery	34 min
Jul 15, 4:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Fayette	41 min
Jul 15, 4:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Licking	30 min
Jul 15, 4:52 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Warren	23 min
Jul 15, 4:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Fairfield, Franklin, Licking, Pickaway	50 min
Jul 15, 5:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Fairfield, Licking	61 min
Jul 15, 5:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Fairfield, Licking	27 min
Jul 15, 5:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Clinton	31 min
Jul 15, 5:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Brown, Clinton, Highland	24 min
Jul 15, 2:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Fayette	47 min
Jul 15, 3:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Wayne	44 min
Jul 15, 3:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Fayette	44 min
Jul 15, 4:35 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Fayette, Wayne	55 min
Jul 15, 6:21 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Ripley	54 min
Jul 15, 6:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Ripley	62 min
Jul 15, 7:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Fayette	50 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.