Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 16, NWS Wilmington, OH

June 3, 1990Preble County, Ohio

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 3, 1990, 6:16 PM EDT for Preble County, Ohio. It was in force for 59 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: Jun 3, 1990, 6:16 PM EDT (22:16 UTC)
Expired: Jun 3, 1990, 7:15 PM EDT
In force: 59 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, OH
Area: Whole counties

County Preble 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

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 3, 6:21 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 0	Preble, 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, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 42 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1429 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 66 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 117 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 185 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

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 severe thunderstorm 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 3, 4:38 PM EDT, 1 hour 38 minutes before

OHZ005-010-032200-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DAYTON OH
437 PM EDT SUN JUN 3 1990

THE LEADING EDGE OF A LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM
NORTHWEST OHIO SOUTHWEST ACROSS INDIANA AT 435 PM EDT.

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A 20 TO 30 MILE WIDE LINE OF SHOWERS
AND THUNDERSTORMS FROM OHIO ACROSS INDIANA. THE LINE WAS FROM WEST OF TOLEDO
ACROSS NORTHWEST VAN WERT COUNTY AND CONTINUED SOUTHWEST TO NEAR TERRA
HAUTE INDIANA.

THE LINE WAS MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH AND WILL SPREAD INTO MERCER COUNTY IN
WEST CENTRAL OHIO BY 5 PM AND INTO THE REST OF WESTERN OHIO BY 630 PM.

THESE STORM MAY PRODUCE BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...ISOLATED WIND GUST TO 55 MPH AND
POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL.

PEOPLE LIVING IN THE PATH OF THESE STORM SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR ANY CHANGES
UPDATES IN FORECAST.

TORRENCE

Special weather statement, Jun 3, 6:08 PM EDT, 8 minutes before

<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
  <title>Service Notice</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css">
</head>
<body>
  <main class="wrap">
    <section class="card" role="status" aria-live="polite">
      <div class="status" id="status">Temporary Notice</div>
      <h1 id="headline">This service is currently unavailable.</h1>
      <p id="message1">
        The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
      </p>
      <p id="message2">
        Please try again in a few minutes.
      </p>
      <p class="small" id="detail">
        If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
      </p>
    </section>
  </main>
  <script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

The office that day

Everything else NWS Wilmington, OH issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 2, 9:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Darke, Mercer	50 min
Jun 2, 11:14 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	ILN	Butler, Hamilton	61 min
Jun 2, 11:52 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	ILN	Warren	53 min
Jun 3, 12:11 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	ILN	Clinton	49 min
Jun 3, 2:03 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Brown	57 min
Jun 3, 5:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Mercer	49 min
Jun 3, 6:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Darke	45 min
Jun 3, 6:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Auglaize	66 min
Jun 3, 6:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Shelby	59 min
Jun 3, 6:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Montgomery	59 min
Jun 3, 12:15 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	ILN	Boone	45 min
Jun 3, 12:45 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	ILN	Carroll, Owen	45 min
Jun 3, 2:03 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Pendleton	57 min
Jun 2, 10:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Ripley	57 min
Jun 2, 10:50 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	ILN	Dearborn, Ripley	25 min
Jun 2, 11:20 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	ILN	Ripley	40 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Ohio, 1990 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1990

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.