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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 124, NWS Wilmington, OH

July 3, 2026Auglaize County, Mercer County, Ohio

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 3, 2026, 6:52 PM EDT for Auglaize County, Mercer County, Ohio. It was in force for 33 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: Jul 3, 2026, 6:52 PM EDT (22:52 UTC)
Expired: Jul 3, 2026, 7:25 PM EDT
In force: 33 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, OH
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Auglaize County, OH, Mercer County, OH

The radar

The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 136 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:55 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, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 136 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: 2742 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -36 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1073 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -48 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 23 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Wilmington, OH issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 3, 12:02 AM EDT	Heat Advisory	ILN	Adams, Auglaize, Brown, Butler, Champaign, Clark and 26 more	44 hr
Jul 3, 5:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Preble	37 min
Jul 3, 5:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Darke, Preble	25 min
Jul 3, 6:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Darke	29 min
Jul 3, 6:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Darke, Mercer	45 min
Jul 3, 6:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Shelby	33 min
Jul 3, 7:22 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Auglaize	38 min
Jul 3, 7:35 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Hardin	25 min
Jul 3, 7:57 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Hardin	33 min
Jul 3, 4:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILN	Wayne	32 min

Nearby

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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.