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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Wilmington, OH

June 18, 1992Ripley County, Indiana

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this tornado warning at Jun 18, 1992, 1:44 PM EST for Ripley County, Indiana. It was in force for 46 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, 1:44 PM EST (18:44 UTC)
Expired: Jun 18, 1992, 2:30 PM EST
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, OH
Area: Whole counties

County Ripley County, IN

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 18, 2:06 PM EST	Hail 0.75	Ripley, 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 12:00Z, 6.7 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-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: 15 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -197 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 880 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 54 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 112 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 72 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KCVG 181846
TORCVG
INC137-181930-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CINCINNATI OH
244 PM EDT THU JUN 18 1992
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CINCINNATI HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  330 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
 
IN SOUTHEAST INDIANA
          ...RIPLEY
 
AT 240 PM EDT. INDIANA STATE POLICE IN RIPLEY COUNTY REPORTED
3 SIGHTINGS OF FUNNELS CLOUDS NEAR NAPOLEON...OR 32 WEST OF
CINCINNATI OHIO MOVING EAST.
 
 
DO NOT USE YOUR CAR TO TRY TO OUTRUN A TORNADO.  CARS ARE EASILY
TOSSED AROUND BY TORNADO WINDS.  IF YOU ARE CAUGHT IN THE PATH OF
A TORNADO...LEAVE THE CAR AND GO TO A STRONG BUILDING.  IF NO
STRUCTURE IS NEARBY...SEEK SHELTER IN A DITCH OR LOW SPOT.
SAM

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 18, 2:44 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Franklin	31 min
Jun 18, 1:23 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Ripley	52 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, 2:30 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Ohio, Switzerland	60 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
Jun 18, 4:17 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Switzerland	43 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.