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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 19, NWS Wilmington, OH

June 18, 1992Franklin County, Indiana

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 18, 1992, 2:44 AM EST for Franklin County, Indiana. It was in force for 31 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 18, 1992, 2:44 AM EST (07:44 UTC)
Expired: Jun 18, 1992, 3:15 AM EST
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, OH
Area: Whole counties

County Franklin County, IN

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 18, 3:00 AM EST	Hail 1.75	Franklin, IN

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, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 91 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: 2881 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1069 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 103 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 206 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 2.2
Supercell composite: 12.7

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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, Jun 18, 12:02 AM EST, 2 hours 42 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 17, 10:16 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Mercer	59 min
Jun 18, 12:15 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Crawford	60 min
Jun 18, 3:15 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Butler	30 min
Jun 18, 3:45 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Butler	30 min
Jun 18, 4:39 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Clermont, Hamilton	66 min
Jun 18, 2:09 PM EST	Tornado Warning	ILN	Butler	66 min
Jun 18, 2:27 PM EST	Tornado Warning	ILN	Darke	63 min
Jun 18, 2:30 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Hamilton	60 min
Jun 18, 2:43 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Van Wert	62 min
Jun 18, 3:46 PM EST	Tornado Warning	ILN	Miami	59 min
Jun 18, 4:32 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Logan	43 min
Jun 18, 5:55 PM EST	Tornado Warning	ILN	Clark	65 min
Jun 18, 4:17 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Boone	58 min
Jun 18, 4:24 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Kenton	51 min
Jun 18, 2:30 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Boone	60 min
Jun 18, 3:02 PM EST	Tornado Warning	ILN	Gallatin	58 min
Jun 18, 3:26 PM EST	Tornado Warning	ILN	Boone	64 min
Jun 18, 3:58 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Grant	62 min
Jun 18, 4:17 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Gallatin	43 min
Jun 18, 4:27 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Grant	63 min
Jun 18, 4:30 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Pendleton	60 min
Jun 18, 5:19 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Grant	41 min
Jun 18, 1:23 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Ripley	52 min
Jun 18, 1:44 PM EST	Tornado Warning	ILN	Ripley	46 min
Jun 18, 1:51 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Franklin	54 min
Jun 18, 2:13 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Dearborn	62 min
Jun 18, 2:41 PM EST	Tornado Warning	ILN	Dearborn	49 min
Jun 18, 2:46 PM EST	Tornado Warning	ILN	Switzerland	44 min
Jun 18, 2:58 PM EST	Tornado Warning	ILN	Ripley	62 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.