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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Wilmington, OH

May 9, 1988Crawford County, Ohio

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 9, 1988, 4:05 PM EDT for Crawford County, Ohio. It was in force for 40 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
May 9, 1988, 4:05 PM EDT (20:05 UTC)
Expired
May 9, 1988, 4:45 PM EDT
In force
40 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.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
May 9, 4:15 PM EDTThunderstorm Wind 0Crawford, OH

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.

The nearest sounding before it

Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 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 1988-05-09Temperature 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 1988-05-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 287 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
900 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
287 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
284 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 9, 1:41 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNMercer49 min
May 9, 1:59 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNDarke41 min
May 9, 2:41 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNPreble49 min
May 9, 3:03 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNMontgomery47 min
May 9, 3:13 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNLogan47 min
May 9, 3:19 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNButler26 min
May 9, 3:29 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNGreene31 min
May 9, 4:48 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNAshland, Richland42 min
May 9, 4:51 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNBracken, Mason54 min
May 9, 1:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNFranklin43 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Ohio, 1988Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1988

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.