Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 5, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 17, 1992, 2:54 PM EDT for Williams County, Ohio. It was in force for 51 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 17, 1992, 2:54 PM EDT (18:54 UTC)
- Expired
- May 17, 1992, 3:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Northern Indiana
- Area
- Whole counties
County Williams County, OH
The nearest sounding before it
Detroit, MI (KFNT), launched 12:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 160 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
- 203 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -105 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1252 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 163 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 167 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KFWA 171854
SVRFWA
OHC171-171945-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WAYNE IN
254 PM EDT SUN MAY 17 1992
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 345 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING
COUNTY
IN THE NORTHWEST PART OF OHIO
WILLIAMS
AT 251 PM EDT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED 60 MILES WEST OF
TOLEDO OHIO OR 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BRYAN IN EXTREME NORTHWEST
OHIO.
THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.
PEOPLE IN THE AREA AROUND THE CITY OF BRYAN OHIO
SHOULD SEEK SHELTER IN A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND NEAR WINDOWS.
DO NOT USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNTIL THE STORM HAS
PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD AVOID LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...FIND SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A
STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...
AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.
STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.
MARSHALLWhat 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, May 17, 9:37 AM EDT, 5 hours 17 minutes before
INZ001-002-004-005-MIZ001-007-008-171535- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND MICHIANA AREA WEATHER UPDATE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SOUTH BEND IN 835 AM EST SUN MAY 17 1992 ...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MOVING OVER NORTH CENTRAL INDIANA... AT 830 AM EST/ 930 AM EDT...A 20 MILE WIDE AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING OVER NORTH CENTRAL INDIANA NEAR NAPPPANEE...SOUTHWEST TO NEAR BASS LAKE. SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE BRIEF HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WINDS AS THEY MOVE TO THE NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. BY 930 AM EST/1030 AM EDT...THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE TO NEAR LIGONIER. ELESWHERE SKIES WILL BE MOSTLY CLOUDY. TEMPERATURES WILL BE IN THE MIDDLE TO UPPER 70S AND WINDS WILL BE FROM THE SOUTHWEST AT 15 TO 20 MPH. IF THUNDERSTORMS APPROACH...SEEK SHELTER INDOORS AND BE PREPARED FOR BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS AND LIGHTNING. GRIFFIN
Special weather statement, May 17, 12:55 PM EDT, 1 hour 59 minutes before
INZ003-005-006-OHZ001-171745- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WAYNE IN 1153 AM EST SUN MAY 17 1992 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF NORTHEAST INDIANA AND EXTREME NORTHWEST OHIO UNTIL 6 PM EST/7 PM EDT. AT 1150 AM EST A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM 15 MILES SOUTH OF MARION INDIANA TO 30 MILES NORTHWEST OF MARION INDIANA OR 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WABASH IN NORTHEAST INDIANA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH AND CONTAINED STRONG GUSTY WINDS...SMALL HAIL...HEAVY RAINS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. BY 1245 PM EST/145 PM EDT THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL EXTEND FROM 30 MILES WEST OF FORT WAYNE TO 25 MILES SOUTH OF FORT WAYNE OR 10 MILES SOUTH OF BLUFFTON TO 25 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MARION INDIANA. PERSONS IN NORTHEAST INDIANA AND EXTREME NORTHWEST OHIO SHOULD BE TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SHELTER SHOULD SEVERE WEATHER DEVELOPE. MARSHALL
Special weather statement, May 17, 1:31 PM EDT, 1 hour 23 minutes before
INZ003-005-006-OHZ001-171830- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WAYNE IN 1231 PM EST SUN MAY 17 1992 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF NORTHEAST INDIANA AND EXTREME NORTHWEST OHIO UNTIL 6 PM EST/7 PM EDT THIS EVENING. AT 1225 PM EST/ 125 PM EDT... A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING GUSTY WINDS... HEAVY RAINFALL AND SMALL HAIL WAS LOCATED FROM 30 MILES WEST OF FORT WAYNE NEAR NORTH MANCHESTER TO 15 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MARION INDIANA NEAR HARTFORD CITY. THIS LINE OF STORMS WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST NEAR 35 MILES AN HOUR. BY 130 PM EST/230 PM EDT... IT WILL BE LOCATED FROM 35 MILES NORTHWEST TO 10 MILES EAST TO 30 MILES SOUTHEAST OF FORT WAYNE. PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS CAN EXPECT VERY HEAVY RAINFALL... DANGEROUS LIGHTNING... SMALL HAIL AND STRONG WINDS. IF YOU ARE IN THE ABOVE MENTIONED AREA... SEEK SHELTER IN A STRONG BUILDING AWAY FROM WINDOWS. REMAIN THERE AND DO NOT USE ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNTIL THESE STORMS HAVE PASSED YOUR LOCATION. DUMEYER
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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.