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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 151, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 17, 2024, 5:20 PM EDT for Licking County, Ohio. It was in force for 18 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
- Aug 17, 2024, 5:20 PM EDT (21:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 17, 2024, 5:38 PM EDT
- In force
- 18 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Licking County, OH
The radar
The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 137 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:18 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 205 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
- 828 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -15 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 602 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 69 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 98 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 Aug 17, 2:30 PM EDT, 2 hours 50 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 17, 2:30 PM EDT, 2 hours 50 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION National Weather Service Wilmington OH 230 PM EDT Sat Aug 17 2024 .SYNOPSIS... Occasional periods of showers and thunderstorms will continue through the weekend as a low pressure system moves through the Great Lakes region. High pressure and a drier airmass will then build into the Ohio Valley through the workweek. Below normal temperatures and abundant sunshine are expected for the first half of the workweek. && .NEAR TERM /UNTIL 6 AM SUNDAY MORNING/... Several clusters have storms have developed near/SE of I-71 as expected, with disorganized more cellular SHRA activity pivoting into parts of WC OH. Given the favorable deep-layer and LL thermodynamic environment entrenched across far srn OH and N KY, the primary severe threat is likely to be focused in these areas through late afternoon. As we progress into early evening, the initial clusters of storms currently in the local area should progress to the S/E and out of the ILN FA, likely signaling an end to the main severe threat locally, or at the very least a substantial downtick in the overall potential as these areas will have difficulty rebounding thermodynamically through the remainder of the day (even in the prospect of additional redevelopment). Given the tremendously-favorable DCAPE environment coinciding with strong deep-layer instby and decent/sufficient deep-layer shear, the strongest storms will pose a damaging wind threat, especially if some of the cells can organize into clusters, which has occurred somewhat already. But the threat should be rather short-lived, potentially decreasing quite a bit toward/beyond 21z as the area becomes convectively-contaminated and the LL lapse rates suffer. Further to the N/NW from WC through central OH, wraparound moisture pivoting back in from the NW coinciding with better forcing and slightly cooler temps aloft will promote numerous disorganized SHRA and a few rumbles of thunder from time to time. Although the downburst potential in these areas is quite a bit lower than for locales further to the SE, some brief gusty winds will still be possible given the steep LL lapse rates. The main limiting factor for this activity is going to be updraft strength/persistence. SHRA/TSRA activity should wane as we progress past sunset, with perhaps an ISO/spotty SHRA persisting across the region through the nighttime hours. But would expect that most areas will remain dry tonight as skies generally trend cloudier through the predawn hours. && .SHORT TERM /6 AM SUNDAY MORNING THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT/... The lumbering mid/upper level low/trof deepens/digs into the ern Great Lakes/OH Vly region on Sunday, yielding broad/deep- layer cyclonic flow in the region and fairly impressive negative height anomalies to go along with it. This will translate to a rather unsettled pattern locally Sunday as the combination of typical diurnally-driven summertime heating and LL moisture coinciding with cooler temps aloft will generate numerous cellular/disorganized SHRA, with perhaps a rumble of thunder, during the afternoon into early evening Sunday. Daytime highs will be quite a bit cooler on Sunday, owing to extensive/expansive cloud cover and numerous afternoon SHRA pinwheeling around the low center just to the NE of the ILN FA. Temps should top out in the mid 70s to around 80 degrees, with likely to categorical PoPs from SW to NE, respectively, across the local area for the afternoon time period. Sunday will likely be one of those days where it rains on-and-off several times in any one location over the course of the daytime, but perhaps not amounting to more than a third to half of an inch in total. Drier and cooler conditions evolve Sunday night as temps dip into the lower/mid 60s as slightly drier air begins to slowly filter into the region. && .LONG TERM /MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY/... Deep trough along the Appalachians at the start of the period will weaken and lift out mid to late week allowing mid level pattern to deamplify. Thereafter, high pressure centered over the southern Plains will be able to sprawl east northeast across the region and to the Atlantic seaboard by the end of the period. Surface high pressure will predominate through the week leading to dry conditions. Temperatures will be below normal, especially at night, through mid week. A warming trend will ensue as upper heights rise and readings will be back above normal by Friday and Saturday. && .AVIATION /18Z SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY/... Several clusters of TSRA are already ongoing across the region, with an expectation for additional more widespread, but loosely organized, storms expected through the first part of the TAF period. Coverage of activity should be fairly widespread, although there may be a relative "minimum" near KCVG/KLUK/KILN through the heart of the afternoon, with greater coverage focused further to the N, S, and E. As such, have only included a tempo TSRA at KDAY/KCMH/KLCK, but storms will be possible just about anywhere at any time through 00z. Sudden reductions in VSBYs and gusty winds will be possible with the activity but will be handled with amendments as needed. CIGs should be mainly VFR through this evening before trending MVFR, or even IFR, past 06z, persisting through most of the remainder of the morning Sunday. IFR CIGs will be favored for nrn sites, but will be possible just about anywhere. SW winds of 12-15kts, with gusts 20-25kts, are expected through the afternoon before going more westerly and subsiding past 00z. Winds will gradually go more out of the WNW toward the end of the period at about 10-12kts. Winds may become light enough during the overnight hours to promote the development of some BR and MVFR VSBYs, but there are some uncertainties regarding how widespread this may be, especially with some MVFR/IFR CIGs filtering in during the predawn hours as well. Diurnally-driven/enhanced SHRA, with a few rumbles of thunder, will sprout about again toward the end of the period. OUTLOOK...Thunderstorms possible on Sunday. && .ILN WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... OH...None. KY...None. IN...None. && SYNOPSIS...KC NEAR TERM...KC SHORT TERM...KC LONG TERM... AVIATION...KC
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Everything else NWS Wilmington, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 16, 9:06 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILN | Fairfield | 24 min |
| Aug 17, 3:19 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILN | Darke | 26 min |
| Aug 17, 3:41 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILN | Darke | 34 min |
| Aug 17, 1:10 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILN | Clermont | 35 min |
| Aug 17, 1:28 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILN | Clinton | 32 min |
| Aug 17, 1:33 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILN | Brown, Clermont | 42 min |
| Aug 17, 1:51 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILN | Licking | 24 min |
| Aug 17, 1:56 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILN | Clinton | 34 min |
| Aug 17, 2:08 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILN | Brown, Highland | 37 min |
| Aug 17, 2:35 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILN | Adams, Pike | 40 min |
| Aug 17, 2:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Adams, Pike, Scioto | 34 min |
| Aug 17, 2:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Adams, Scioto | 44 min |
| Aug 17, 3:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Adams, Brown, Scioto | 48 min |
| Aug 17, 3:15 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILN | Pike | 30 min |
| Aug 17, 5:02 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILN | Licking | 43 min |
| Aug 17, 5:12 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILN | Clinton | 33 min |
| Aug 17, 5:41 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILN | Fayette | 34 min |
| Aug 17, 5:55 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILN | Champaign, Clark, Miami | 35 min |
| Aug 17, 5:57 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILN | Licking | 33 min |
| Aug 17, 7:06 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILN | Brown | 24 min |
| Aug 17, 11:08 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILN | Bracken, Robertson | 37 min |
| Aug 17, 11:27 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILN | Mason | 33 min |
| Aug 17, 11:59 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILN | Mason | 31 min |
| Aug 17, 12:26 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILN | Lewis | 34 min |
| Aug 17, 12:57 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILN | Lewis | 33 min |
| Aug 17, 1:08 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILN | Campbell | 37 min |
| Aug 17, 2:48 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILN | Robertson | 42 min |
| Aug 17, 3:53 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILN | Lewis | 52 min |
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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.