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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 96, NWS Wilmington, OH

May 27, 20246 counties in Kentucky; Switzerland County, Indiana

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 27, 2024, 12:14 AM EDT for 6 counties in Kentucky; Switzerland County, Indiana. It was in force for 46 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: May 27, 2024, 12:14 AM EDT (04:14 UTC)
Expired: May 27, 2024, 1:00 AM EDT
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, OH
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Switzerland County, IN, Boone County, KY, Gallatin County, KY, Grant County, KY, Kenton County, KY, Owen County, KY, Pendleton County, KY

The radar

The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
May 26, 11:06 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 108 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: 7 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -365 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 919 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 422 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 426 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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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 May 26, 7:26 PM EDT, 4 hours 48 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 26, 7:26 PM EDT, 4 hours 48 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 26, 4:56 PM EDT, 7 hours 18 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, May 26, 6:16 PM EDT, 5 hours 58 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 26, 7:27 PM EDT, 4 hours 47 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
May 26, 11:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Montgomery	34 min
May 27, 12:24 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Miami, Montgomery, Preble	36 min
May 27, 12:40 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Clermont	50 min
May 27, 12:48 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Brown, Clermont, Hamilton	23 min
May 27, 1:08 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Clinton, Fayette, Greene, Highland	37 min
May 27, 1:12 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Delaware, Union	33 min
May 27, 1:15 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Brown	45 min
May 27, 1:15 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Champaign	30 min
May 27, 1:35 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILN	Champaign, Clark, Madison	72 min
May 27, 1:44 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Delaware, Franklin, Madison, Pickaway	46 min
May 27, 1:50 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Adams, Pike, Ross, Scioto	55 min
May 27, 2:37 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Fairfield	23 min
May 27, 2:43 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Scioto	17 min
May 26, 11:52 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Boone, Carroll, Gallatin, Grant, Owen	38 min
May 26, 11:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Fayette, Union, Wayne	43 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.