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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 217, NWS Wilmington, OH

December 28, 20255 counties in Ohio; Fayette County, Union County, Wayne County, Indiana

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Dec 28, 2025, 9:05 PM EST for 5 counties in Ohio; Fayette County, Union County, Wayne County, Indiana. It was in force for 40 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: Dec 28, 2025, 9:05 PM EST (02:05 UTC)
Expired: Dec 28, 2025, 9:45 PM EST
In force: 40 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, OH
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Possible
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Fayette County, IN, Union County, IN, Wayne County, IN, Butler County, OH, Darke County, OH, Miami County, OH, Montgomery County, OH, Preble County, OH

The radar

The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:07 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 336 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: 600 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 91 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -160 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 18 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 Dec 28, 5:58 PM EST, 3 hours 7 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 28, 5:58 PM EST, 3 hours 7 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Dec 28, 11:42 AM EST, 9 hours 23 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
Dec 28, 9:23 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Darke, Miami, Shelby	37 min
Dec 28, 10:07 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Champaign, Logan, Union	10 min
Dec 28, 10:11 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Clermont, Hamilton	49 min
Dec 28, 10:29 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Clark, Franklin, Madison	31 min
Dec 28, 10:40 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Brown, Clermont, Clinton, Fayette, Highland, Warren	37 min
Dec 28, 10:49 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Brown, Clermont	41 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Ohio, 2025 Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Indiana, 2025 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2025

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.