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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 101, NWS Wilmington, OH

May 2, 2025Hocking County, Ohio

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 2, 2025, 4:01 PM EDT for Hocking County, Ohio. It was in force for 29 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 2, 2025, 4:01 PM EDT (20:01 UTC)
Expired: May 2, 2025, 4:30 PM EDT
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, OH
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Hocking County, OH

The radar

The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:04 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, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 114 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: 328 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -53 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 716 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 75 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 96 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.4

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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 2, 2:19 PM EDT, 1 hour 42 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 2, 2:19 PM EDT, 1 hour 42 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 2, 1:04 PM EDT, 2 hours 57 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, May 2, 2:58 PM EDT, 1 hour 3 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 2, 3:00 PM EDT, 1 hour 1 minute before

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Special weather statement, May 2, 3:02 PM EDT, 59 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 2, 3:03 PM EDT, 58 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 2, 3:07 PM EDT, 54 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 2, 3:53 PM EDT, 8 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 1, 8:06 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Mercer	24 min
May 1, 8:09 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Montgomery, Preble	36 min
May 2, 11:34 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Shelby	26 min
May 2, 12:04 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Logan	26 min
May 2, 12:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Shelby	32 min
May 2, 12:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Hardin, Logan, Union	43 min
May 2, 12:34 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Hardin	26 min
May 2, 12:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Hardin, Logan, Union	28 min
May 2, 1:10 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Shelby	20 min
May 2, 1:11 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Clark	34 min
May 2, 1:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Hardin	37 min
May 2, 1:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Clermont	30 min
May 2, 1:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Logan	37 min
May 2, 1:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Ross	31 min
May 2, 2:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Brown	32 min
May 2, 2:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Clinton	32 min
May 2, 2:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Delaware	32 min
May 2, 2:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Delaware, Licking	24 min
May 2, 2:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Champaign	35 min
May 2, 2:34 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Ross	26 min
May 2, 2:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Adams	34 min
May 2, 2:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Highland	34 min
May 2, 2:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Scioto	32 min
May 2, 2:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Union	37 min
May 2, 2:54 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Delaware	36 min
May 2, 3:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Warren	30 min
May 2, 3:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Fayette	28 min
May 2, 3:03 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Fairfield	27 min
May 2, 3:07 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Hocking	38 min
May 2, 3:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Hocking	37 min
May 2, 4:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Licking	32 min
May 2, 5:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Hamilton	25 min
May 2, 6:11 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Warren	34 min
May 2, 6:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Franklin	27 min
May 2, 6:35 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Fayette	25 min
May 2, 6:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Clermont	34 min
May 2, 6:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Licking	32 min
May 2, 6:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Fayette, Madison	17 min
May 2, 7:03 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Highland	27 min
May 2, 7:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Hocking, Pickaway, Ross	19 min
May 2, 7:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Pickaway	28 min
May 2, 7:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Licking	30 min
May 2, 7:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Pickaway	28 min
May 2, 7:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Pickaway	35 min
May 2, 7:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Fairfield	34 min
May 2, 7:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Licking	31 min
May 2, 1:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Bracken	31 min
May 2, 4:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Carroll, Gallatin, Owen	38 min
May 2, 5:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Boone, Campbell, Carroll, Gallatin, Grant, Kenton and 2 more	38 min
May 2, 5:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Boone	20 min
May 2, 6:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Campbell	33 min
May 1, 9:57 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Ripley	48 min
May 2, 4:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Ohio, Switzerland	32 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.