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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 34, NWS Wilmington, OH

May 15, 1986Crawford County, Ohio

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 15, 1986, 6:55 PM EDT for Crawford County, Ohio. It was in force for 65 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 15, 1986, 6:55 PM EDT (22:55 UTC)
Expired
May 15, 1986, 8:00 PM EDT
In force
65 min
Issued by
NWS Wilmington, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Crawford 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 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 151 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 12:00Z on 1986-05-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 1986-05-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 49 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1136 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
49 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
15 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 15, 6:03 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNHardin, Logan57 min
May 15, 6:37 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNDarke, Mercer63 min
May 15, 7:50 PM EDTTornado WarningILNCrawford45 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.