A cold front passed over the Ohio Valley during the overnight hours of the 15th. Some bowing segments persisted through the afternoon of the 16th.
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A cold front passed over the Ohio Valley during the overnight hours of the 15th. Some bowing segments persisted through the afternoon of the 16th.
The local office's own words before the first event, 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 the first event at Jun 16, 5:36 AM EST, 2 hours 34 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 636 AM EDT MON JUN 16 2008 .SYNOPSIS... A COLD FRONT WILL PUSH THROUGH THE REGION TODAY. HIGH PRESSURE WILL THEN BUILD IN FROM THE WEST THROUGH MIDWEEK. && .NEAR TERM /UNTIL 6 PM THIS EVENING/... EARLY THIS MORNING THE COLD FRONT WAS STILL BACK ACROSS WESTERN INDIANA AND ILLINOIS. A FEW SHOWERS AND STORMS WERE REDEVELOPING ACROSS NORTHERN INDIANA. EXPECT TO SEE ADDITIONAL DEVELOPMENT THROUGH THE DAY AS A SHORT WAVE OVER IOWA HEADS EAST SOUTHEAST. IT APPEARS THAT THIS ACTIVITY WILL OCCUR OUT AHEAD OF THE FRONT. BUT THERE WILL ALSO BE THE POTENTIAL FOR ADDITIONAL SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT ALONG THE BOUNDARY AS IT CROSSES THE FORECAST AREA THIS AFTERNOON. KEPT POPS IN THE CHANCE CATEGORY. GIVEN THE FORECAST INSTABILITY THERE COULD BE SOME STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS PRIMARILY SOUTH AND EAST OF I-71. && .SHORT TERM /6 PM THIS EVENING THROUGH WEDNESDAY/... SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS COULD STILL BE IN THE SOUTHEAST ZONES EARLY THIS EVENING BEFORE MOVING OFF. OTHERWISE HIGH PRESSURE WILL BE RIDGING IN FROM THE WEST THROUGH THE PERIOD BRINGING COOLER CONDITIONS. AN UPPER LOW WILL BECOME ESTABLISHED OVER EASTERN CANADA WITH SHORT WAVES ROTATING AROUND IT. LATEST OPERATIONAL MODELS SUGGEST THE STRONGEST OF THESE SHORT WAVES WILL PASS THROUGH ON WEDNESDAY. SO UPPED POPS SOMEWHAT FOR THAT TIME. GENERALLY USED A MOS BLEND THROUGHOUT FOR TEMPERATURES. && .LONG TERM /WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY/... ALTHOUGH THE UPPER LOW OVER EASTERN CANADA LIFTS OUT EARLY IN THE PERIOD...NORTHWEST FLOW WILL PERSIST INTO THE WEEKEND. THIS WILL KEEP TEMPERATURES BELOW NORMAL ALBEIT WITH SOME MODERATION OVER TIME. BOTH THE 00Z ECMWF AND 00Z GFS ENSEMBLE SUGGEST THAT THE BEST CHANCE OF RAIN WILL COME ON SATURDAY AS A SHORT WAVE CROSSES THE AREA. CANNOT RULE OUT SOME OTHER MINOR WAVES TRIGGERING PRECIPITATION. BUT AT THIS POINT IN TIME THE PROBABILITY IS TOO LOW TO INCLUDE IN THE FORECAST. && .AVIATION /09Z MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY/... NOT MUCH CHANGE TO PREVIOUS FORECAST PACKAGE. SCT TSTM HAVE BEEN MOVG THRU NRN INDIANA...BUT HAVE BEEN WEAKENING AS THEY MOVE E. ATTM...FEEL THAT THEY WILL STAY N OF DAY AND CMH. ADDITIONAL STORMS HAVE DEVELOPED IN NORTHERN KENTUCKY. BUT IT APPEARS THAT THEY WILL REMAIN SOUTH OF CVG. AREA OF AC OVER SRN IN IS FCST TO MOVE E AND AFFECT TAFS AT BEGINNING OF PERIOD WENT WITH BKN AC IN S AND SCT IN N. CDFNT WILL SLOWLY PUSH INTO THE FA. BEST INSTABILITY STILL APPEARS TO BE JUST SE OF THE TAFS...SE OF I-71 AND LINGERS FOR MUCH OF THE DAY. STILL FEEL THAT MOST OF CONVECTION TODAY WILL BE SE OF TAFS...SO LEFT A CB MENTION FROM CVG TO ILN TO CMH. HIGH PRESSURE BEGINS TO BUILD IN AFT 00Z...PUSHING IN MORE STABLE AIR. OUTLOOK...NO SIG WX EXPECTED. && .ILN WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... OH...NONE. KY...NONE. IN...NONE. && SYNOPSIS... NEAR TERM... SHORT TERM... LONG TERM... AVIATION...SITES
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 510 AM EDT MON JUN 16 2008 INZ050-058-059-066-073>075-080-KYZ089>100-OHZ026-034-035-042>046- 051>056-060>065-070>074-077>082-088-170915- WAYNE-FAYETTE IN-UNION IN-FRANKLIN IN-RIPLEY-DEARBORN-OHIO- SWITZERLAND-CARROLL-GALLATIN-BOONE-KENTON-CAMPBELL-OWEN-GRANT- PENDLETON-BRACKEN-ROBERTSON-MASON-LEWIS-HARDIN-MERCER-AUGLAIZE-DARKE- SHELBY-LOGAN-UNION OH-DELAWARE-MIAMI-CHAMPAIGN-CLARK-MADISON- FRANKLIN OH-LICKING-PREBLE-MONTGOMERY-GREENE-FAYETTE OH-PICKAWAY- FAIRFIELD-BUTLER-WARREN-CLINTON-ROSS-HOCKING-HAMILTON-CLERMONT-BROWN- HIGHLAND-ADAMS-PIKE-SCIOTO- 510 AM EDT MON JUN 16 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EAST CENTRAL INDIANA...SOUTHEAST INDIANA...NORTHEAST KENTUCKY...NORTHERN KENTUCKY...CENTRAL OHIO...MIAMI VALLEY OF OHIO...SOUTH CENTRAL OHIO...SOUTHWEST OHIO AND WEST CENTRAL OHIO. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE TODAY...MAINLY SOUTH AND EAST OF INTERSTATE 71. A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE THROUGH THE OHIO VALLEY TODAY. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP AHEAD OF AND ALONG THIS FRONT. THE ATMOSPHERE MAY BECOME UNSTABLE ENOUGH... PRIMARILY ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL OHIO AND NORTHERN KENTUCKY...FOR ONE OR TWO OF THESE STORMS TO BECOME SEVERE. THE COLD FRONT WILL MOVE EAST OF THE REGION BY EARLY THIS EVENING...ENDING ANY THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED TODAY.
The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 107 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 12:56 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Several trees were knocked down.
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