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High Wind Warning 1, NWS Wilmington, OH

March 12, 202621 counties in Ohio; Fayette County, Union County, Wayne County, Indiana

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this high wind warning at Mar 12, 2026, 12:35 PM EDT for 21 counties in Ohio; Fayette County, Union County, Wayne County, Indiana. It took effect at Mar 13, 2026, 5:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 15 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: Mar 12, 2026, 12:35 PM EDT (16:35 UTC)
In effect from: Mar 13, 2026, 5:00 AM EDT
Expired: Mar 13, 2026, 8:00 PM EDT
In force: 15 hr
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, OH

All 24 counties

Fayette County, IN, Union County, IN, Wayne County, IN, Auglaize County, OH, Champaign County, OH, Clark 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, Licking County, OH, Logan County, OH, Madison County, OH, Mercer County, OH, Miami County, OH, Montgomery County, OH, Pickaway County, OH, Preble County, OH, Shelby County, OH, Union County, OH

The radar

The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:35 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, 4.6 hours before the alert went out and 63 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: 1023 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 83 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -127 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -134 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 high wind 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 high wind warning went out at Mar 12, 6:20 AM EDT, 6 hours 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 12, 6:20 AM EDT, 6 hours 15 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 12, 2:53 AM EDT, 9 hours 42 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Mar 12, 9:30 AM EDT, 3 hours 5 minutes before

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Local storm report, Mar 12, 9:32 AM EDT, 3 hours 3 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
Mar 11, 8:07 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	ILN	Clinton, Highland	6 hr
Mar 12, 2:12 AM EDT	High Wind Watch	ILN	Auglaize, Champaign, Darke, Delaware, Hardin, Logan and 4 more	10 hr
Mar 12, 2:12 AM EDT	Wind Advisory	ILN	Adams, Brown, Butler, Clark, Clermont, Clinton and 16 more	42 hr
Mar 12, 3:27 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	ILN	Hocking	9 hr

Nearby

High Wind Warnings in Ohio, 2026 High Wind Warnings in Indiana, 2026 Every high wind 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.