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Tornado Warning 7, NWS Wilmington, OH

June 14, 1986Morrow County, Ohio

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this tornado warning at Jun 14, 1986, 5:06 PM EDT for Morrow County, Ohio. It was in force for 54 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 14, 1986, 5:06 PM EDT (21:06 UTC)
Expired
Jun 14, 1986, 6:00 PM EDT
In force
54 min
Issued by
NWS Wilmington, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Morrow 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, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 138 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 1986-06-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 49 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 12:00Z on 1986-06-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 21 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
49 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-102 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
939 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
21 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
43 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.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this tornado warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 14, 2:12 PM EDT, 2 hours 54 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DAYTON OH
210 PM EDT SAT JUN 14 1986

..SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING INTO WEST CENTRAL OHIO..

AT 205 PM RADAR SHOWED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IN VAN WERT COUNTY
WITH THE HEAVIEST THUMNDERSTORMS IN EASTERN VAN WERT COUNTY. THESE
THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH AND SHOULD BE IN WEST ALLEN
COUNTY BY 220 PM EDT.

THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN WITH STRONG AND GMUSTY WINDS
AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL.

AUXIER
Special weather statement, Jun 14, 2:43 PM EDT, 2 hours 23 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DAYTON OH
245 PM EDT SAT JUN 14 1986

..SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING INTO WEST CENTRAL OHIO..

AT 240 PM RADAR SHOWED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IN ALLEN COUNTY
WITH THE HEAVIEST THUNDERSTORMS JUST NORTH OF LIMA IN ALLEN COUNTY.
THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH AND SHOULD BE IN WESTERN
HARDIN COUNTY BY 300 PM EDT.

THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN WITH STRONG AgND GUSTY WINDS
AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL.

AUXIER

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.