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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 129, NWS Wilmington, OH

May 16, 20254 counties in Ohio

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 16, 2025, 10:57 PM EDT for 4 counties in Ohio. It was in force for 48 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 16, 2025, 10:57 PM EDT (02:57 UTC)
Expired: May 16, 2025, 11:45 PM EDT
In force: 48 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, OH
Area: Storm-based polygon
Damage threat: Considerable
Hail: 2.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Fayette County, OH, Highland County, OH, Pickaway County, OH, Ross County, OH

The radar

The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:57 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 16, 7:17 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 44 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: 1419 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -64 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1215 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 194 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 182 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.3
Supercell composite: 7.9

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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 16, 10:08 PM EDT, 49 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 16, 10:08 PM EDT, 49 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 16, 7:28 PM EDT, 3 hours 29 minutes before

Hazardous Weather Outlook
National Weather Service Wilmington OH
728 PM EDT Fri May 16 2025

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

.DAY ONE...Tonight.

Severe storms can be expected this evening. All severe hazards are
possible, including damaging winds in excess of 70 mph, very large
hail, and tornadoes, some of which could be strong.

In addition, locally heavy rain could result in flash flooding.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Saturday through Thursday.

There is a low probability for widespread hazardous weather.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

Spotters are encouraged to relay severe reports to the National
Weather Service.

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 16, 10:44 PM EDT, 13 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 16, 10:44 PM EDT, 13 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 16, 10:46 PM EDT, 11 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 16, 10:46 PM EDT, 11 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 16, 10:49 PM EDT, 8 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 16, 10:53 PM EDT, 4 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 16, 8:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Auglaize, Darke, Mercer, Miami, Shelby	44 min
May 16, 8:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Butler, Montgomery, Preble	52 min
May 16, 8:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Auglaize, Champaign, Clark, Darke, Greene, Hardin and 6 more	47 min
May 16, 8:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Butler, Clinton, Greene, Montgomery, Warren	44 min
May 16, 8:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Champaign, Clark, Greene, Logan, Madison, Miami and 3 more	49 min
May 16, 9:03 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Hardin	42 min
May 16, 9:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Hardin, Logan, Union	37 min
May 16, 9:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Clark, Clinton, Fayette, Greene, Highland, Madison and 3 more	41 min
May 16, 9:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Champaign, Clark, Delaware, Franklin, Logan, Madison and 2 more	64 min
May 16, 9:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	ILN	Clinton, Fayette, Highland	23 min
May 16, 9:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ILN	Clinton, Fayette, Greene, Highland, Madison, Pickaway and 1 more	48 min
May 16, 10:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Butler, Clinton, Warren	44 min
May 16, 10:08 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILN	Clinton, Fayette, Highland, Warren	3 hr
May 16, 10:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Delaware, Fairfield, Franklin, Licking	51 min
May 16, 10:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Darke, Miami, Montgomery, Preble	36 min
May 16, 10:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Fairfield, Franklin, Hocking, Pickaway, Ross	65 min
May 16, 10:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Clinton, Fayette, Highland, Ross	43 min
May 16, 10:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Clark	44 min
May 16, 11:03 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ILN	Fairfield, Hocking, Pickaway, Ross	2 hr
May 16, 11:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Montgomery	44 min
May 16, 11:26 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Clark, Franklin	49 min
May 16, 11:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Hocking	46 min
May 16, 11:34 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Clark, Madison	41 min
May 16, 11:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Greene, Madison	34 min
May 17, 12:55 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Champaign, Miami, Union	50 min
May 17, 1:39 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Champaign, Clark, Delaware, Franklin, Madison, Union	51 min
May 16, 10:38 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Carroll, Gallatin, Grant, Owen, Pendleton	52 min
May 16, 8:04 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	ILN	Dearborn, Franklin, Ripley	26 min
May 16, 8:18 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	ILN	Fayette, Wayne	8 min
May 16, 8:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Fayette, Union, Wayne	17 min
May 16, 9:36 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Fayette, Union, Wayne	39 min
May 16, 9:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Fayette, Union, Wayne	40 min
May 16, 10:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Union	46 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.