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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 87, NWS Wilmington, OH

August 28, 1990Miami County, Ohio

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 28, 1990, 8:36 PM EDT for Miami County, Ohio. It was in force for 69 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
Aug 28, 1990, 8:36 PM EDT (00:36 UTC)
Expired
Aug 28, 1990, 9:45 PM EDT
In force
69 min
Issued by
NWS Wilmington, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Miami 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
Aug 28, 8:50 PM EDTThunderstorm Wind 0Miami, 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 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 17 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 1990-08-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1965 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 1990-08-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 61 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
1965 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-35 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1458 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
61 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
99 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.5
Supercell composite
6.6

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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 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, Aug 28, 8:30 PM EDT, 6 minutes before
OHZ006-007-009-011-280230-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE  COLUMBUS OH
830 PM EDT TUE AUG 28 1990

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE NORTHERN
TWO THIRDS OF OHIO UNTIL 10 PM EDT.

AT 825 PM THE COLUMBUS WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A LARGE AREA OF SHOWERS
AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHERN AND WEST CENTRAL OHIO. THE AREA OF
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING EAST TO SOUTHEAST AROUND 35 MPH

THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO REACH WESTERN MARION AND UNION COUNTIES
AROUND 9 PM. THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND
BRIEF HEAVY RAINS.

PEOPLE IN CENTRAL OHIO SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER
CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS.

LVW

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 28, 8:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNDarke60 min
Aug 28, 8:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNLogan65 min
Aug 28, 8:43 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNMontgomery, Preble62 min
Aug 28, 8:53 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNClark, Greene67 min
Aug 28, 9:33 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNDarke57 min
Aug 28, 10:33 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNButler42 min
Aug 28, 10:53 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNHamilton52 min
Aug 28, 11:43 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNButler, Hamilton62 min
Aug 28, 11:56 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNClermont64 min
Aug 28, 11:21 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNCampbell, Kenton69 min
Aug 29, 12:11 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNBoone64 min
Aug 29, 12:28 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNGallatin, Grant, Owen62 min
Aug 28, 10:12 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNFranklin48 min
Aug 28, 11:17 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNFranklin43 min
Aug 28, 11:31 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNDearborn, Ripley59 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Ohio, 1990Every 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.