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Tornado Warning 6, NWS Wilmington, OH

May 15, 1986Crawford County, Ohio

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this tornado warning at May 15, 1986, 7:50 PM EDT for Crawford County, Ohio. It was in force for 45 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 15, 1986, 7:50 PM EDT (23:50 UTC)
Expired
May 15, 1986, 8:35 PM EDT
In force
45 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, 11.8 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

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

000 
TTAA00 KMFD 152350
TORMFD
OHC033-160035-

BULLETIN-EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MANSFIELD OH
750 PM EDT THU MAY 15 1986

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE 
UNTIL 835 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY OF 

OHIO...CRAWFORD

AT 645 PM EDT POLICE REPORT A TORNADO ON THE GROUND JUST NORTHEAST OF 
NEW WASHINGTON INCRAWFORD COUNTY. THE TORNADO WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 
50 MPH.

PEOPLE IN THE PATH OFZ THE STORM SHOULD GO TO A SAFE PLACE IMMEDIATELY.

BANYAS

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, 6:55 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNCrawford65 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.