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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Wilmington, OH

March 10, 1986Hardin County, Ohio

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this tornado warning at Mar 10, 1986, 5:24 PM EST for Hardin County, Ohio. It was in force for 41 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 10, 1986, 5:24 PM EST (22:24 UTC)
Expired
Mar 10, 1986, 6:05 PM EST
In force
41 min
Issued by
NWS Wilmington, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Hardin 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, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 96 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 1986-03-10Temperature 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 1986-03-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 422 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
893 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
422 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
421 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
Mar 10, 4:38 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNHamilton32 min
Mar 10, 4:44 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNMontgomery, Preble56 min
Mar 10, 4:48 PM ESTTornado WarningILNMercer32 min
Mar 10, 4:53 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNClinton27 min
Mar 10, 4:56 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNClark, Greene44 min
Mar 10, 5:35 PM ESTTornado WarningILNCrawford53 min
Mar 10, 5:40 PM ESTTornado WarningILNRichland48 min
Mar 10, 5:45 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNHighland45 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Ohio, 1986Every tornado warning in 1986Tornadoes in 1986

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.