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Freeze Warning 2, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this freeze warning at Apr 7, 2026, 1:27 PM EDT for 31 counties in Ohio; Lewis County, Mason County, Kentucky; 4 counties in Indiana. It took effect at Apr 7, 2026, 11:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 11 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 7, 2026, 1:27 PM EDT (17:27 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 7, 2026, 11:00 PM EDT
- Expired
- Apr 8, 2026, 10:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 11 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
All 37 counties
Fayette County, IN, Franklin County, IN, Union County, IN, Wayne County, IN, Lewis County, KY, Mason County, KY, Adams County, OH, Auglaize County, OH, Brown County, OH, Butler County, OH, Champaign County, OH, Clark County, OH, Clermont County, OH, Clinton County, OH, Darke County, OH, Delaware County, OH, Fairfield County, OH, Fayette County, OH, Franklin County, OH, Greene County, OH, Hardin County, OH, Highland County, OH, Hocking County, OH, Licking County, OH, Logan County, OH, Madison County, OH, Mercer County, OH, Miami County, OH, Montgomery County, OH, Pickaway County, OH, Pike County, OH, Preble County, OH, Ross County, OH, Scioto County, OH, Shelby County, OH, Union County, OH, Warren County, OH
The radar
The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 29 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:26 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
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 28 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1109 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 82 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -73 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 240 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wilmington, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 7, 1:27 PM EDT | Frost Advisory | ILN | Hamilton | 21 hr |
Nearby
Freeze Warnings in Ohio, 2026Freeze Warnings in Indiana, 2026Freeze Warnings in Kentucky, 2026Every freeze warning in 2026
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.