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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Wilmington, OH

June 2, 1990Ripley County, Indiana

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this tornado warning at Jun 2, 1990, 10:20 PM EST for Ripley County, Indiana. It was in force for 40 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 2, 1990, 10:20 PM EST (03:20 UTC)
Expired
Jun 2, 1990, 11:00 PM EST
In force
40 min
Issued by
NWS Wilmington, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Ripley County, IN

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, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 127 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 1990-06-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1038 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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 1990-06-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 188 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
1038 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
715 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
188 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
285 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.1
Supercell composite
6.4

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KCVG 030319
TORCVG
INC137-030400-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CINCINNATI OH
1120 PM EDT  JUN 2 1990
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CINCINNATI HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL MIDNIGHT EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
 
IN SOUTHEAST INDIANA
          ...RIPLEY
 
AT 1117 PM EDT RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM MOVING
INTO WESTERN RIPLEY COUNTY. THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING
TORNADOS WITH EXTENSIVE DAMAGE AND INJURIES.
 
THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 45 MILES AN HOUR.
 
 
 
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION.  ACT QUICKLY.  IF YOU ARE
IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND IF
AVA,ILABLE.  OTHERWISE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR POSSIBLE.  AVOID WINDOWS.  ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES
FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING OR GET INTO A DITCH OR CULVERT.
JN

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 2, 9:33 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNRipley57 min
Jun 2, 9:50 PM ESTTornado WarningILNDearborn, Ripley25 min
Jun 2, 11:15 PM ESTTornado WarningILNOhio45 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Indiana, 1990Every tornado warning in 1990Tornadoes 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.