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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Wilmington, OH

June 8, 1987Hardin County, Ohio

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 8, 1987, 8:39 PM EDT for Hardin County, Ohio. It was in force for 41 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 8, 1987, 8:39 PM EDT (00:39 UTC)
Expired
Jun 8, 1987, 9:20 PM EDT
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 00:00Z, 0.7 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 00:00Z on 1987-06-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 287 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 1987-06-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 98 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
287 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-51 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1878 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
98 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
151 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.8

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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
Jun 8, 8:03 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNVan Wert47 min
Jun 8, 8:17 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNAllen43 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.