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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Wilmington, OH

May 6, 1986Darke County, Preble County, Ohio

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 6, 1986, 11:48 PM EDT for Darke County, Preble County, Ohio. It was in force for 62 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 6, 1986, 11:48 PM EDT (03:48 UTC)
Expired
May 7, 1986, 12:50 AM EDT
In force
62 min
Issued by
NWS Wilmington, OH
Area
Whole counties

Counties Darke County, OH, Preble County, OH

The radar

The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.

The nearest sounding before it

Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 00:00Z, 3.8 hours before the alert went out and 37 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dayton/James M C, OH at 00:00Z on 1986-05-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1279 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dayton/James M C, OH at 00:00Z on 1986-05-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 127 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1279 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-9 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1370 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
127 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
131 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.6
Supercell composite
6.9

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KDAY 070348
SVRDAY
OHC037-135-070450-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DAYTON OH
1148 PM EDT TUE MAY 6 1986
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1250 AM EDT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES OF
 
OHIO.. DARKE.. PREBLE
 
AT 1145 PM EDT RADAR INDICATED HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS NEAR
RICHMOND INDIANA.  THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.
THESE STORMS HAVE MA HISTORY OF HIGH WINDS DOWNING TREES
ACROSS EAST CENTRAL INDIANA.
 
THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE LARGE HAIL.. HEAVY RAINS..
DAMAGING WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING.
 
GCL

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 6, 8:13 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNHardin57 min
May 6, 8:19 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNDarke, Miami56 min
May 6, 8:31 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNLogan59 min
May 6, 8:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNShelby61 min
May 6, 8:55 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNChampaign65 min
May 6, 9:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNCrawford, Morrow60 min
May 7, 12:37 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNWarren43 min
May 7, 12:45 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNClinton35 min
May 7, 1:19 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNHighland31 min
May 7, 4:40 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNDarke60 min
May 7, 4:56 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNGreene, Montgomery64 min
May 7, 4:59 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNClermont31 min
May 7, 5:17 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNBrown33 min
May 7, 5:48 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNClermont42 min
May 7, 6:40 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNButler50 min
May 7, 6:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNClermont26 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.