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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Wilmington, OH

February 27, 2025Fairfield County, Franklin County, Pickaway County, Ohio

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 27, 2025, 5:42 PM EST for Fairfield County, Franklin County, Pickaway County, Ohio. It was in force for 33 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: Feb 27, 2025, 5:42 PM EST (22:42 UTC)
Expired: Feb 27, 2025, 6:15 PM EST
In force: 33 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, OH
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 50.0 mph

Counties Fairfield County, OH, Franklin County, OH, Pickaway County, OH

The radar

The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:45 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, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 88 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: 778 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 57 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 0 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 85 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 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 Feb 27, 3:45 PM EST, 1 hour 57 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 27, 3:45 PM EST, 1 hour 57 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Feb 27, 3:08 PM EST, 2 hours 34 minutes before

Hazardous Weather Outlook
National Weather Service Wilmington OH
308 PM EST Thu Feb 27 2025

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282015-
Wayne-Fayette-Union-Franklin-Hardin-Mercer-Auglaize-Darke-Shelby-
Logan-Delaware-Miami-Champaign-Clark-Madison-Preble-Montgomery-
Greene-Butler-Warren-Clinton-
308 PM EST Thu Feb 27 2025

...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 10 AM TO 7 PM EST FRIDAY...

This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for east central Indiana,
southeast Indiana, central Ohio, southwest Ohio and west central
Ohio.

.DAY ONE...This afternoon and tonight.

There is a low probability for widespread hazardous weather.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Friday through Wednesday.

Please listen to NOAA Weather Radio or go to weather.gov on the
Internet for more information about the following hazards.

   Wind Advisory.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

Spotter activation is not expected at this time.

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Ripley-Dearborn-Ohio-Switzerland-Carroll-Gallatin-Boone-Kenton-
Campbell-Owen-Grant-Pendleton-Bracken-Robertson-Mason-Lewis-Licking-
Pickaway-Fairfield-Ross-Hocking-Hamilton-Clermont-Brown-Highland-
Adams-Pike-Scioto-
308 PM EST Thu Feb 27 2025

This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for southeast Indiana, northeast
Kentucky, northern Kentucky, central Ohio, south central Ohio and
southwest Ohio.

.DAY ONE...This afternoon and tonight.

There is a low probability for widespread hazardous weather.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Friday through Wednesday.

Southwest winds will occasionally gust between 30 mph and 40 mph
Friday afternoon.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

Spotter activation is not expected at this time.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Feb 27, 5:19 PM EST, 23 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Feb 27, 5:26 PM EST, 16 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Feb 27, 5:30 PM EST, 12 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Feb 27, 5:32 PM EST, 10 minutes before

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Local storm report, Feb 27, 5:40 PM EST, 2 minutes before

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Local storm report, Feb 27, 5:41 PM EST, 1 minute 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 27, 2:14 PM EST	Wind Advisory	ILN	Auglaize, Butler, Champaign, Clark, Clermont, Clinton and 16 more	29 hr
Feb 27, 2:39 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Butler	36 min
Feb 27, 2:56 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Highland	34 min
Feb 27, 3:20 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Greene	25 min
Feb 27, 4:11 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Warren	34 min
Feb 27, 4:38 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Clark	37 min
Feb 27, 4:40 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Clinton	35 min
Feb 27, 4:48 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Madison	27 min
Feb 27, 4:50 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Franklin	25 min
Feb 27, 4:52 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Fairfield	23 min
Feb 27, 5:02 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Clermont	13 min
Feb 27, 5:03 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Delaware	27 min
Feb 27, 5:10 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Pickaway	20 min
Feb 27, 5:16 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Licking	14 min
Feb 27, 5:17 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Franklin	28 min
Feb 27, 5:26 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Franklin	19 min
Feb 27, 5:30 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Licking	15 min
Feb 27, 5:32 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Licking	13 min
Feb 27, 5:46 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Hardin	14 min
Feb 27, 6:11 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Fairfield	34 min
Feb 27, 6:37 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Delaware, Union	23 min
Feb 27, 3:32 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Campbell	28 min
Feb 27, 3:55 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Bracken	35 min
Feb 27, 3:57 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Boone	33 min
Feb 27, 4:34 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Kenton	26 min
Feb 27, 5:09 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Mason	21 min
Feb 27, 5:19 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Bracken	26 min
Feb 27, 2:55 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Dearborn	35 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.