Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 74, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 20, 1990, 3:54 PM EDT for Preble County, Ohio. It was in force for 51 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 20, 1990, 3:54 PM EDT (19:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 20, 1990, 4:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 51 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 847 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -34 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 840 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 93 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 122 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.9
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, Jul 20, 1:40 PM EDT, 2 hours 14 minutes before
OHZ008-INZ013-KYZ005-201845- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CINCINNATI OH 140 PM EDT FRI JUL 20 1990 AT 130 PM EDT...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE OCCURRING OVER PART OF WESTERN OHIO...WHILE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED OVER PARTS OF EASTERN INDIANA AND CENTRAL OHIO. THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN EXTENDED FROM JUST NORTH OF RICHMOND INDIANA...NORTHEAST TO ABOUT 30 MILES WEST OF MANSFIELD OHIO...IN AN AREA ABOUT 30 MILES WIDE. GUSTY WINDS...SMALL HAIL AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING MAY ALSO OCCUR WITH THESE STORMS. THEY WERE MOVING EAST AT ABOUT 30 MILES AN HOUR. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED OVER A WIDE AREA FROM JUST NORTH OF INDIANAPOLIS...EAST TO ABOUT 30 MILES EAST OF COLUMBUS OHIO. THESE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALSO MOVING EAST AT ABOUT 30 < MILES AN HOUR. GOLDEN
Special weather statement, Jul 20, 2:33 PM EDT, 1 hour 21 minutes before
OHZ008-INZ013-KYZ005-201945- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CINCINNATI OH 232 PM EDT FRI JUL 20 1990 .A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM EDT FOR SOUTHWEST OHIO. AT 128 PM EDT...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE OCCURRING OVER PARTS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN INDIANA AND WESTERN OHIO. THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE OCCURRING JUST NORTH OF INDIANAPOLIS INDIANA. THEY ALSO EXTENDED FROM ABOUT 30 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BLOOMINGTON INDIANA...NORTHEAST TO NEAR MANSFIELD OHIO. AT 217 PM EDT...VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS REPORTED BY THE SHERFIFF OF RIPLEY COUNTY INDIANA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT ABOUT 30 MILES AN HOUR. < IN ADDITION TO VERY HEAVY RAIN...THE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE GUSTY WINDS...SMALL HAIL AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER IN YOUR AREA AND LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO STATION FOR POSSIBLE WARNINGS. GOLDYEN
Special weather statement, Jul 20, 2:37 PM EDT, 1 hour 17 minutes before
OHZ008-INZ013-KYZ005-201945- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CINCINNATI OH 236 PM EDT FRI JUL 20 1990 .A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM EDT FOR SOUTHWEST OHIO. AT 228 PM EDT...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE OCCURRING OVER PARTS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN INDIANA AND WESTERN OHIO. THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE OCCURRING JUST NORTH OF INDIANAPOLIS INDIANA. THEY ALSO EXTENDED FROM ABOUT 30 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BLOOMINGTON INDIANA...NORTHEAST TO NEAR MANSFIELD OHIO. AT 217 PM EDT...VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS REPORTED BY THE SHERFIFF OF RIPLEY COUNTY INDIANA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT ABOUT 30 MILES AN HOUR. < IN ADDITION TO VERY HEAVY RAIN...THE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE GUSTY WINDS...SMALL HAIL AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER IN YOUR AREA AND LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO STATION FOR POSSIBLE W`ARNINGS. GOLDEN
Special weather statement, Jul 20, 3:48 PM EDT, 6 minutes before
OHZ008-INZ013-KYZ005-202100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CINCINNATI OH 348 PM EDT FRI JUL 20 1990 .A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM EDT FOR PARTS OF SOUTHWEST OHIO. AT 330 PM EDT...THUNDERSTORMS HAD MOVED INTO SOUTHWEST OHIO... NORTHERN KENTUCKY AND SOUTHEAST INDIANA. THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL AND HEAVY RAIN WERE OVER RIPLEY COUNTY OF SOUTHEAST INDIANA. AT 330 PM EDT RIPLEY COUNTY SHERIFF REPORTED SMALL HAIL AND VERY HEAVY RAIN 4 MILES SOUTH OF DILLSBORO IN SOUTHEAST RIPLEY COUNTY. THIS STORM WILL MOVE INTO DEARBORN AND OHIO COUNTIES OF SOUTHEAST INDIANA BY 4 PM EDT. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER BOONE COUNTY KENTUCKY AND HAMILTON COUNTY OF SOUTHWEST OHIO. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. JN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wilmington, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 20, 3:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Darke | 50 min |
| Jul 20, 4:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Miami, Montgomery | 40 min |
| Jul 20, 4:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Clark, Greene | 41 min |
| Jul 20, 4:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Clermont | 68 min |
| Jul 20, 5:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Campbell, Kenton, Pendleton | 57 min |
| Jul 20, 4:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Franklin | 55 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.